Articulate Studio for Sale?
Jun 15, 2012
By
Dale Hargis
I've just started my first freelance Articulate job and it looks like it might lead to more. I have Articulate at work but don't want to muddy the waters so I've been working with trial versions at home for now.
Long story short, I need to buy Articulate Studio but this first job won't pay enough to buy the latest version. Does anyone know how I can buy a used copy with full license? I don't even know if it works where you can sell/transfer a license but I'd like to find out...
Thanks,
Dale Hargis
7 Replies
Hi Dale! I'm sorry, the end-user license agreement doesn't permit licensees to resell their license.
is this still the case?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/top-eu-court-upholds-right-to-resell-downloaded-software/
Yah.
Interesting.
Jeanette - given that ruling, (for us over here), why is it still the case?
Which bit of the License actually says that - I've just read it twice and cannot see it!
Bruce
Hi Bruce! Section 2.1 of the license agreement says that the Licensor "grants Licensee a nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable right and license to have the User use the Software and Documentation without modification." Also, section 5.1 says that licensor may not "encumber, lease, rent, loan, sublicense, transfer or distribute" the software. There's a bit in Section 9.5 ("Assignment") too: "...the rights and obligations hereunder are personal to Licensee, and may not be assigned or otherwise transferred, in whole or in part, without Licensor's prior written consent."
I thought the whole point of the court case was to establish that, despite what licences may say - they can afterall say anything, customers can in fact sell their software and licences.
Although I admit to not having read too much into it so my interpretation could be wrong.
Hi Jeanette.
Thanks.
Fair enough I suppose, interesting though now that precedent seems to have been set over here...
Bruce
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