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UK Court of Appeal settles reseller's question: Is software a good?

xhosa

the proper thing must be handing over the license on paper, Paper is a tangible good, "enough scarce in relation to demand to command a price". This "good" has properties, like any hammer has properties making it useful for different purposes, sheet steel, nails or as a geological pick. The important property in this case is to give access to some expensive intellectual property but, nota bene this property is not essential as seen by the UK Court of Appeal though, I'm just trying to argue for it's likeness to other tangible things

Refer to https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/153342/one-type-of-good-singular-or-plural

The OED 'goods' - meaning: C lll 7b would seem to suggest that the singular form is obsolete and (7a (b)) that the plural form, 'goods' is used for singular.

BUT:

"However, I recalled from Pure Economics that theoretical Economists, will often refer to an 'economic good'. I was delighted to discover that the OED has a separate entry on 'economic good' which appears below."

"economic good n.[oun] a commodity or service which is sufficiently scarce in relation to demand to command a price."

Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/153342/one-type-of-good-singular-or-plural

Lastly but not at all leastly: to this I can only say the words "or service" makes the UK Court of Appeal's decision rather shaky. The case all depends on which source of reference they use when deciding that a "good" is a tangible thing, their own beliefs or the community of theoretical economists...

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