Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Ninth Circuit -- APPLE INC. V. PSYSTAR CORPORATION

 First sale defense not valid against violation of software license.

Deft had put plaintiff's OS on its machines & shipped a purchased, sealed copy of the OS with the machines.

Extensive disquisition on "copyright misuse."

APPLE INC. V. PSYSTAR CORPORATION
Compiled by D.E. Frydrychowski, who is, not incidentally, not giving you legal advice.

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