At 10:06 PM 3/16/2010, Fred Cisin wrote:
There is NO argument possible to the explicit
transfer of IP rights.
Do you mean company-to-company, or do you mean licenses, and adherence
to shrinkwrap agreements?
If the agreement says you can't transfer ownership, then how
can a collector even acquire someone else's old stuff?
- John
And even if there were some type of agreements, I think the "First Sale"
Doctrine would have to kick in here somewhere.
Even Microsoft lost(ok, gave up) their copyright suit when a college kid
sold his Windows OS disk on ebay.
Keith