EU Court Forces Publishers To Allow Digital Games Resale  The
Court of Justice of the European Union has made a landmark
ruling that prohibits software publishers from opposing
secondhand sales of their programs (and games).  The lengthy and
exhaustive ruling covered most – if not all – of the legal
tactics employed by software publishers to prevent secondhand
sales. Most prominently, the court ruled that firsthand
purchasers of software have the right to resell it even if they
signed a license agreement that prohibits that. “[This] would
allow the copyright holder to control the resale of copies
downloaded from the internet and to demand further remuneration
on the occasion of each new sale, even though the first sale of
the copy had already enabled the rightholder to obtain an
appropriate remuneration,” the court explained. “Such a
restriction of the resale of copies of computer programs
downloaded from the internet would go beyond what is necessary
to safeguard the specific subject-matter of the intellectu