Denne saken er såpass viktig at den fortjener en egen tråd!
Så, hele smørja med evige mengder EULA-er som vi alle later som om vi leser kan se ut til å være ulovlig. Det hele bunner tydeligvis ut i at spilldistributørene prøver å selge oss en lisens uten definert sluttdato, mens EU-lovverket sier at det må være en begrenset tidsramme. Har den ikke en begrenset tidsramme overføres eierskapet av kopien til kunden.
Dette er spennende saker!
RockPaperShotgun skrev:
The Court Of Justice of the European Union has just ruled that people should be able to resell downloaded games. In an environment where publishers are trying to destroy basic consumer rights like the ability to resell physical products you’ve paid for, this could be one heck of a turnaround for customers.
The preliminary ruling skrev:
«The first sale in the EU of a copy of a computer program by the copyright holder or with his consent exhausts the right of distribution of that copy in the EU. A rightholder who has marketed a copy in the territory of a Member State of the EU thus loses the right to rely on his monopoly of exploitation in order to oppose the resale of that copy… The principle of exhaustion of the distribution right applies not only where the copyright holder markets copies of his software on a material medium (CD-ROM or DVD) but also where he distributes them by means of downloads from his website. »
RockPaperShotgun skrev:
The specific rule seems to be that if a license is sold indefinitely – i.e. not a license for a year, or similar – that the rightholder “exhausts his exclusive distribution right”.
“Such a transaction involves a transfer of the right of ownership of the copy.”
That sentence is a really massive deal. It’s the very first time there has been any official sense of ownership via digital distribution, and if it gets implemented by courts, it’s going to change a great deal. From our having the legal right to sell games in our Origin accounts, right down to surely taking away the ability for companies like Valve and EA to block customers’ access to their purchased games for other infractions.
Dette er spennende saker!