Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle
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Meanwhile the U.S. suffers under Vernor vs Autodesk
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> The case later took a turn, when Microsoft attempted to reframe it as a copyright dispute. VL was leaning on the EU's UsedSoft ruling, which established that secondhand software licenses could legally be resold. Microsoft changed tack and countered that Office's icons and help files made it a creative work...
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- Meanwhile the U.S. suffers under Vernor vs Autodeskby knollimar
- > The case later took a turn, when Microsoft attempted to reframe it as a copyright dispute. VL was leaning on the EU's UsedSoft ruling, which established that secondhand software licenses could legally be resold. Microsoft changed tack and countered that Office's icons and help files made it a creative work...by rkagerer
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