Brussels, 24/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - Creators of computer programs may oppose the re-sale of “used” licences which allow their programs to be downloaded from the internet again, but not the resale of “used” copies, downloaded by their own customers from the internet, given that their exclusive right of distribution relating to those copies is “exhausted”.
That was the opinion given by Advocate General Yves Bot to the Court of Justice of the EU (case C-128/11), which has been...