Autodesk court case: Can shrinkwrapped software now be legally reverse-engineered?

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1. Appeals court holds that Autodesk software with EULA restrictions was not “sold” (so its resale on eBay was a copyright infringement) Today the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower-court decision that could have been trouble for software companies: The appeals court held that Autodesk’s software license agreement...
2. Adobe v. Christenson: Software distribution agreements need license language to avoid first-sale doctrine If you negotiate software-distribution or -reseller agreements for “the channel,” you’ll want to know about the Ninth Circuit decision in Adobe Sys., Inc. v. Christenson, No. 12‑17371 (9th...
3. Calif. appeals court holds that reverse triangular merger does not transfer target’s assets Suppose that an agreement between A Corporation and B LLC prohibits A from assigning the agreement without B’s consent. Now suppose that C wants to...
4. Briefing a case: Some standard questions to ask in strip-mining the court’s opinion Here are some questions I’d like students to be able to answer about pretty much every case I ask them to read — in part because...