Gawain opened this issue on Aug 06, 2009 · 18 posts
gagnonrich posted Fri, 07 August 2009 at 9:25 AM
Quote - Once again, I'm not a lawyer, but the license binding you is the one valid at the moment you buy something. All later modifications don't affect you, much like new laws don't apply on things which happened before they were released.
That should be correct. That license is the contract that was purchased and is a legally binding agreement made at the time of purchase. The license owner cannot retroactively change that agreement without the consent of the other party.
The one problem area that does exist with digital content is the question of whether the content is legitimately owned by the person selling it. If someone is selling stolen goods, then the buyer may be unwittingly buying content that the seller cannot legally license. It would seem that the legal owner of the content ought to be willing to accept a new purchase of their product or may even graciously allow their content to be used in a cirucumstance where people purchased a product in good faith. I'm not sure what kind of policies the different stores have in that situation. It's a relatively rare occurrence and, even if a model has to be purchased again, it's probably still cheaper than building it from scratch since a person has to be paid an hourly wage to produce it for a single user.
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