#Want Computer Library
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Frank,
I hope that policy is only temporary. What happens if say a company buys
your product and then goes bust? Are you saying the company cannot then
realise those assets by transferring ownership to someone else?
Adrian
Adrian,
Let me preface this by saying that I am the Tech Support Manager at
Computer Library, so I can only tell you what our license says. Since I am
not a lawyer, I'm not in a position interpret the license for you.
Our license is just that, a license to use our data — you don't really own
it — the "ownership" (copyright) of all full text remains with the
original publisher of the material, which in many cases is not even Ziff.
As such, you cannot sell it to someone else since it was never really
"sold" to you.
Again, I don't write the license. If you feel that you need a further
clarification of our license, please feel free to send me a letter at
Computer Library, One Park Ave, NY, NY 10016. I will be happy to forward
it to our legal department for a reply.
Regards, Frank
Hi Frank,
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh in my previous message. I was just thinking
out loud in case an opportunity presented itself for me to acquire some
'used' software at a 'reasonable' price.
BTW I'm not a lawyer either, so we probably know as much as each other<g>
Some software companies seem to allow this and others don't. I suppose the
thing to do is to wait until the scenario I posed actually arises and then
ask the question at the time.
I saw a curious thing Friday on installing a new PC. One side of the sealed
envelope was printed 'Software Licence for the UK', while the other side
said 'Software Licence for the USA'. I hasten to add this wasn't any of
Computer Library's products and I didn't try to spot the differences
between the two<g>. They must have been very subtle as both opening
paragraphs were identical. Even more curious is that I'm located in
Germany, the software was the German version, and the machines were
purchased through an 'official' German distributor, but no mention anywhere
of a 'Software Licence for Germany'.
Best regards
Adrian
Adrian,
You did not sound harsh — I merely wanted to let you know that I'm not a
lawyer so that we did not end up in some legal discussion.
I know what you mean about software licenses — it is difficult to keep up
with all the differences from product to product. Hopefully some day all
the lawyers will agree on one 🙂
Frank