German court upholds decision on used software licences

A higher German court has ruled to uphold a decision by a lower court to ban the sale of used software licenses, in a case involving a subsidiary of Oracle. The Appellate Court of Munich ruled on Thursday that the sale of used software licences is illegal, upholding a decision reached by the District Court of Munich on 19 January, which ruled that the sale of software licences by Soft infringed upon copyrights held by Oracle International.