Licensing question - anybody know?

[Thomas Lew]

So I just bought final cut studio 3 academic. Now I have both fcs 2 academic.. and a brand new fcs 3 academic. Now that I have 3, I have no use for the older final cut studio. I want to just give it to my buddy who I work with at my school all the time since I don't need it anymore and he has final cut pro 5.

I'm fairly certain it's within the legal terms that I'm allowed to give it to somebody as a present. I can't imagine anything you ever spend money on to not be allowed to give it away if you don't want it anymore.

My question is.. will there be any issues with this? If he installs the disks should he use my name as the owner? Thanks.

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[Alex H.]

Don't know about transfer of license with academic, but the legal agreement by installing academic is that it is only for personal/educational use and not to be used for commercial production.

If your friend is another student, he falls under the academic licensing criteria. And since you did not purchase an upgrade (since you can't upgrade academic), your new FCS3 is a completely new license.

I'd call Apple and ask them about transfer of an academic license, and make sure that you completely remove all FCS2 software from your computer.

 

[DJDecay]

You know the old saying "If you have to ask, you can't..." well if you're trying to be 100% law abiding, - Actually the right term would be "IN COMPLIANCE with LICENSING"
then Apple Corp will tell you that you and you alone own the "License" and nobody can use it but you, no matter how many copies. You did not buy software in a box, you bough a License to use their software, an Academic one at that.

You cannot gift a license, you cannot sell a license - or at-least most of the software industry does not want you to. The box yes, the disks yes, but a license must be "transfered"

If you opened the shrink-wrapping on the box, and click "Accept" on the terms and agreements, you've already been bound into a contract. Called a click-through license or EULA (End User License Agreement.)

Read the EULA for Final Cut Studio 2 Academic EULA and see if any of it applies.

http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf

Section 3 is "Transfer" applies to All Versions Academic and Otherwise.

But it its my firm recommendation that you absolutely disregard this EULA and do what you feel is right (or fair to you as a consumer of Apple products - including First Sale doctrine), and not document it on this forum .

 

[Thomas Lew]

You know the old saying "If you have to ask, you can't..." well if you're trying to be 100% law abiding, - Actually the right term would be "IN COMPLIANCE with LICENSING"
then Apple Corp will tell you that you and you alone own the "License" and nobody can use it but you, no matter how many copies. You did not buy software in a box, you bough a License to use their software, an Academic one at that.

You cannot gift a license, you cannot sell a license - or at-least most of the software industry does not want you to. The box yes, the disks yes, but a license must be "transfered"

If you opened the shrink-wrapping on the box, and click "Accept" on the terms and agreements, you've already been bound into a contract. Called a click-through license or EULA (End User License Agreement.)

Read the EULA for Final Cut Studio 2 Academic EULA and see if any of it applies.

http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf

Section 3 is "Transfer" applies to All Versions Academic and Otherwise.

But it its my firm recommendation that you absolutely disregard this EULA and do what you feel is right (or fair to you as a consumer of Apple products - including First Sale doctrine), and not document it on this forum .

Thanks for the advice buddy haha.

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