 In Europe, EU Directive 2009/24/EC expressly permits trading used computer programs.Since 2005, Oracle and usedSoft have carried out a legal dispute in Germany on the question of whether usedSoft is permitted to trade used Oracle licenses.The dispute was taken all the way to Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, the country’s highest court, which ultimately passed the case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for adjudication.