Legal Opinion
Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2010No. 09-35969PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:
Timothy Vernor purchased several used copies of Autodesk, Inc.’s AutoCAD Release 14 software (“Release 14”) from one of Autodesk’s direct customers, and he resold the Release 14 copies on eBay. Vernor brought this declaratory judgment action against Autodesk to establish that these resales did not infringe Autodesk’s copyright. The district court issued the requested declaratory judgment, holding that Vernor’s sales were lawful because of two of the Copyright Act’s affirmative defenses that apply to owners of copies of copyrighted works, the first sale doctrine…
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