Today the European Court of Justice ruled that software is like a book. Once you buy it, you can lend it, you can resell it, you can light it on fire, you can lose it, you can laugh when it crashes your computer, and you can transfer it electronically. Although the Court was far too recondite to articulate the true implication of their ruling, the upshot really is that – at least in the EU – if you buy software, you “own” it.
Tag: e-books
The plural of e-book. The face of the future. Go read some Asimov if you don’t believe me. Or just come inside and see what your digital reader reveals.
Author Author — Who Owns Your eBook Rights?
Behind the furor created by a direct deal between a novelist's agent and Amazon lay the salient question raised but not settled by Rosetta Books: did Odyssey have e-book rights to grant?