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Court Smacks Autodesk, Affirms Right to Sell Used Software (Electronic Frontier Foundations) - A federal district judge in Washington State handed down an important decision this week on shrink-wrap license agreements and the First Sale Doctrine. The case concerned an eBay merchant named Timothy Vernor who has repeatedly locked horns with Autodesk over the sale of used copies of its software.

Opening Glance: Internet software, services stocks (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Internet software and services stocks mostly declined with the broader market Friday morning, with Yahoo Inc. dipping after postponing its annual meeting to delay an upcoming proxy contest with activist investor Carl Icahn for control of its board.

IBM to refund Mass. $13M after software contract canceled (Boston Globe) - IBM Corp. has agreed to refund $13 million to Massachusetts after the state canceled a software contract that was improperly awarded to a company IBM later acquired.

Court smacks Autodesk, affirms right to sell used software (Ars Technica) - With the help of Public Citizen, an eBay merchant has won the right to sell used copies of AutoCAD on eBay. Autodesk had sought to block the sale under the software's license agreement, but a court ruled that such sales were legal under copyright's First Sale Doctrine. Read More...

id Software Leaves ESA (Voodoo Extreme) - id Software is the latest big name to part company with the Entertainment Software Association,...

All West Container Buys Advanced Software Suite (Packaging OnLine) - All West Container Co., a San Francisco sheet plant, has purchased the complete Advanced Software Suite — including .NET software for customer service.

NGenera acquires customer interaction management software vendor Talisma (InternetRetailer.com) - NGenera Corp. has acquired customer interaction management software vendor Talisma Corp. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.

id Software Latest to Exit ESA (1up.com) - Recent exodus from Entertainment Software Association continues.

id Software Becomes Latest ESA Departure (Gamasutra) - The ESA as well as prominent independent developer id Software have confirmed to Gamasutra that id has revoked its membership in the Entertainment Software Association trade group. The company declined to elaborate on the move. The Mesquite, Texas-based creator of Doom and Quake is now the fourth major recent departure from the ESA's ranks of developers and publishers, following Activision, ...

Microsoft looks to tackle software piracy (The Hindu) - Kolkata, May 23 Microsoft has adopted a three-pronged approach to tackle the problem of software piracy, which accounted for losses of $48 billion globally in 2007.