Virtual Ownership

13 September 2012
A recent case graphically illustrates why companies need to think carefully about the contractual terms of software purchases. Dick Jennings explains

If I buy a loaf of bread, it’s so simple. I am to own that loaf, and the shop is to cease owning it. Property in the loaf passes from the shop to me, after which I can do with it what I like.

Software is different. If I buy Microsoft’s Windows XP I have nothing tangible – except perhaps a CD, which is no more the product I’m paying for than is the wrapper round...

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