Logos & Ownership

Butters

Okay, so I have some questions that might seem a bit strange, at least on the face of it.

Suppose I were to purchase Verbum Capstone, for example; I’m sure I shall like it immensely.

Presumably, however, over the years I will invest a great deal more than the original price for the package. It just looks, well, inevitable….lol, and this will add up to a significant investment....which brings me to the question of ownership generally, and to three inter-related questions:

1. Should I move to, say, London from Boston (very possible in the next few years), would I retain all rights to the Logos software and, especially, the content I purchased?  The reason I ask this is I seem to remember somewhere that certain content could not be sold/licensed to people residing in some countries.  I may have heard this wrong though.  

2. May I gift the Logos software and content I purchased - along with my dead-tree personal library - to someone else, be it a family member or friend?  

3. Should something happen to Logos as a company (and I hope they shall always be profitable and growing ) would I still own the software and content I purchased? Or, more to the point probably, would it still function?  For example, I've spent a great deal of money on books from, say, Brill Publishing - but if Brill were (sadly) ever to go out of business or something like that, I still own the books and they still function exactly the same.  I suspect that might not be true of Logos products/content because of the back end server arrangement.  I may very well be wrong in this though too.  

Moving, physical/earthly death, and business failures - we hate to talk about them, especially the last two.  But they are facts of life.  And I was just wondering, given the amount of money I'm probably investing, what the actual facts of ownership and use are.  

Matthew C Jones

1. Should I move to, say, London from Boston (very possible in the next few years), would I retain all rights to the Logos software and, especially, the content I purchased?  The reason I ask this is I seem to remember somewhere that certain content could not be sold/licensed to people residing in some countries.  I may have heard this wrong though

I don't know. I would imagine the address of registration is all that matters but Customer Service can give you a better answer.

2. May I gift the Logos software and content I purchased - along with my dead-tree personal library - to someone else, be it a family member or friend?

Yes. You can gift, bequeath, transfer or sell your licenses to another. There are a few minor conditions. You can not break up a collection into little pieces but you can dispose of different licenses separately. Academic purchases are not transferable. There is a $20 per transaction administrative fee. It is my understanding you have to will your Logos library to another for them to register it. 

3. Should something happen to Logos as a company (and I hope they shall always be profitable and growing ) would I still own the software and content I purchased? Or, more to the point probably, would it still function?  For example, I've spent a great deal of money on books from, say, Brill Publishing - but if Brill were (sadly) ever to go out of business or something like that, I still own the books and they still function exactly the same.  I suspect that might not be true of Logos products/content because of the back end server arrangement.  I may very well be wrong in this though too.

You will always own the license. If Logos went bankrupt we may have a problem until some other company steps in. 

Moving, physical/earthly death, and business failures - we hate to talk about them, especially the last two.  But they are facts of life.  And I was just wondering, given the amount of money I'm probably investing, what the actual facts of ownership and use are.

You are wise to address these issues.