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The extent to which software may be transferred between users, and the legal risks involved in unauthorised transfers.

Objectives:

• To warn software users about the issues and risks involved in transferring software to third parties
• To explain the possible consequences of unauthorised transfers of software
• To consider the legal position of an unauthorised transferee of software
• To draw attention to the remedies available to a software proprietor whose software is transferred by a licensed user without the software proprietor's consent

*This Legal Guidance Note is only available as a pdf, which will be sent as an email attachment.