http://www.citizen.org/documents/vernororder.pdf

The judge basically says that, the language in AutoCAD's license nonwithstanding, copyright law and the first-sale doctrine apply. Among other things he ruled that, consistent with precedent, merely calling a transaction a license doesn't make it a license instead of a sale. The general rule was whether or not the recipient was required to return the item after a fixed term. If they weren't, it was a sale.

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