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Submission + - Court Sides with eBay Seller Against Autodesk (aecnews.com)

New10k writes: "US District Court in Seattle has rejected Autodesk's myriad arguments regarding its software licenses and found in favor of eBay seller Timothy S. Vernor. The ruling started by ruling that Vernor was within his rights to resell copies of AutoCAD Release 14 he got in an auction. Once the court settled the legitimacy of reselling, it used that ruling as a lens to dismiss all of Autodesk's various claims. More than once the court described Autodesk's arguments as "specious" and "conflicted.""
The Courts

Submission + - Watchdog to Represent eBay Seller in Autodesk Suit (aecnews.com)

New10k writes: "Following up on a recent Slashdot entry, nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has agreed to provide an attorney to eBay seller Timothy S. Vernor, who is suing Autodesk in federal court. This is not the first time Public Citizen has represented an eBay seller. The advocacy group has identified elements of the Vernor case as one of its key litigation priorities for 2007. The article includes an interview with Vernor's new lawyer, Greg Beck, who was a software engineer for Microsoft before going to law school."

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