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Microsoft lost a court case after claiming that reselling its licenses "infringed copyright" (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Microsoft hasn't been having a great time in courts around the world. Recently, we saw Microsoft get sued by an Australian group after the latter claimed that the former was hiding cheaper Microsoft 365 renewal prices from the people.

However, as that fight was beginning, another one was beginning to wrap up, and it isn't good news for Microsoft. A UK court has ruled that the company can no longer prevent people from reselling license keys for its products, after Microsoft claimed that doing so "infringed copyright."

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[–] Socket462@feddit.it 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For personal/home use I always buy from key shops. Never had a problem with win10/win11 and even Office (before I switched to open source alternative)

I thought this was already settled down long ago, at least in Europe.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

It's not cleanly defined for digital only sales