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Adobe offers select pricing to disributors, retailers, and educational users. Along these seperate distribution channels one thing remains the same, the product: they are identical in every aspect, functionality, updates, registration, legal ownership. Regardless of intention, whether it may be for personal, educational, or commercial purposes any product from the various channels can be bought and used legally.
This is part of our fundamental rights know as the "first sales doctrine" which: allows the purchaser to transfer a particular, legally acquired copy of protected work without permission once it has been obtained. That means the distribution rights of a copyright holder end on that particular copy once the copy is sold.
Simplified this means that once you have made a purchase of almost anything, you have the right to do what you want with it. A prime example would be take a car, once you puchase a vehicule, and if you decide to sell your tires, your radio, or change a genuine part for an after market part then this is your legal right. This works the same for any good obviously with certain limitations.
This applies to Adobe Software as well. As mentionned earlier you can purchase from any distribution channel and use the product legally for your intended purposes. Several courts have found that once you purchase software, you have the legal ownership and the software companies cannot restrict how the software is used and therefore have upheld the first sale doctrine.
For example, you can purchase someone’s eductional retail copy of abobe indesign, illustrator, acrobat, etc.., and use this "legally" for commercial purposes. Adobe will support this product the same way for it would for any other product and it is entirely legal. If you have doubts, please feel free to contact Adobe and you can also read further into this. (see below) Bottomline is that you are saving alot of $$$ and doing it legally. It is worth the time to inform yourselves.
This article was written by David Carnet.
For product information, visit: www.estockware.com
This is part of our fundamental rights know as the "first sales doctrine" which: allows the purchaser to transfer a particular, legally acquired copy of protected work without permission once it has been obtained. That means the distribution rights of a copyright holder end on that particular copy once the copy is sold.
Simplified this means that once you have made a purchase of almost anything, you have the right to do what you want with it. A prime example would be take a car, once you puchase a vehicule, and if you decide to sell your tires, your radio, or change a genuine part for an after market part then this is your legal right. This works the same for any good obviously with certain limitations.
This applies to Adobe Software as well. As mentionned earlier you can purchase from any distribution channel and use the product legally for your intended purposes. Several courts have found that once you purchase software, you have the legal ownership and the software companies cannot restrict how the software is used and therefore have upheld the first sale doctrine.
For example, you can purchase someone’s eductional retail copy of abobe indesign, illustrator, acrobat, etc.., and use this "legally" for commercial purposes. Adobe will support this product the same way for it would for any other product and it is entirely legal. If you have doubts, please feel free to contact Adobe and you can also read further into this. (see below) Bottomline is that you are saving alot of $$$ and doing it legally. It is worth the time to inform yourselves.
This article was written by David Carnet.
For product information, visit: www.estockware.com
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