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US Appeal Court says first sale doctrine doesn’t apply to software

17 September 2010 | Mark Weston

A US Appeal Court has ruled that software companies can stop people from ‘re-selling’ their software if the terms of the software licence prohibit such re-sales. The case involved Autodesk trying to...

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Wake-up call for eBay users as person convicted for bidding against his own items

26 April 2010 | Mark Weston

A man has admitted 10 counts of offences of bidding against an item he was selling on eBay in order to drive the sale price up on the popular online auction site. The case was brought in Skipton Magistrates’...

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eBay not liable for counterfeit Tiffany products sold in US

20 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Tiffany has lost a legal action brought against eBay in which the jewellery shop sought to hold the popular online auction site liable for sales made of counterfeit products through its online platform....

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eBay has to pay Louis Vuitton £1.5m for sale of Louis Vuitton products on its site

17 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick

eBay has been ordered by a French court to pay Louis Vuitton’s owner £1.5m for failing to stop products being sold on the auction site. In 2008, LVMH obtained an injunction to prohibit the sale or purchase...

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Man sentenced to three years in jail for selling pirated software on eBay…

18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick

A man has been sentenced to three years in jail for selling pirated software on eBay, the popular auction site. The US court also ordered Gregory Fair to pay Adobe Systems US$740,000. Undercover investigators...

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