Robin Fry

Memery Crystal

Robin is a copyright specialist and formerly Head of Intellectual Property at DAC Beachcroft. He has written extensively on copyright matters. His current focus is on software licensing ' largely dealing with audits or 'software license reviews' initiated by the major software vendors ' Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Informatica. He is currently a director at Memery Crystal LLP and also legal director of its software licensing consultancy, Cerno.

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Disabling devices in on-premise software

Practice notes

This Practice Note discusses the use of non-contractual devices by software suppliers to control running, or prevent the improper use, of on-premise software in business-to-business licences, the consequential legal issues, and the practical implications for the drafting of relevant software licences. It introduces time bombs, logic bombs, back-door/trap-door, fork locks, remote control and turning off, or ‘deprovisioning’.

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Resale of second-hand software

Practice notes

This Practice Note deals with the resale of second-hand business software in the EU and UK, as opposed to games software. It examines the legal issues relating to the resale of software, the UsedSoft case including the UsedSoft case as applied to multimedia works, challenges and implications for software suppliers and resale of second-hand software outside Europe.

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