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Submission + - Data Transfer Pact Between U.S. and Europe Is Ruled Invalid

Submitted by Sique on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:09AM

Sique writes: Europe’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that a widely used international agreement for moving people’s digital data between the European Union and the United States was invalid.

The decision, by the European Court of Justice, throws into doubt how global technology giants like Facebook and Google can collect, manage and analyze online information from their millions of users in the 28-member bloc. The court decreed that the data-transfer agreement was invalid as of Tuesday’s ruling.

Submission + - Used software can be sold, the Court of Justice of the European Union say.

Submitted by Sique on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @07:07AM

Sique writes: An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the
use of his programs downloaded from the internet. The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is
exhausted on its first sale. This was decided today by the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case of UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp..

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