Raindance's Journal: Is there a place for a charity-based second-tier IP market?

In the U.S. we have numberous places to donate physical goods which are no longer needed; Goodwill, The Salvation Army, and so forth. These places then either
1. Donate the items to folks who aren't well off and can benefit from such, or
2. Sell the donated items and use the money for charity.

It's a well-functioning system that does a lot of good for society through providing an outlet for the donation of unneeded property and the charitable redistribution of that property or the property's value.

Now, the same doesn't exist in the so-called 'Intellectual Property' realm, even though 'IP' is even easier to transport and hence donate than physical property.

I think it should; I'd happily donate the Windows and MS Office licenses I got from Dell on the computer I installed Linux on to charity, as I would donate licenses for movies I've gotten bored with (destroying or including the media a license was on would be part of the donation). It'd be great; schools, for instance, would get costly licenses of Windows, I get a tax writeoff, and I do something good for the world.

Of course this is only part of the issue, and one side of it at that (is every donation a lost sale? I don't think so but an argument could be made- as is made with copyright infringement). But I think there's a place for this. Perhaps the charity angle could convince governments that licenses should be easily transferrable. Everything else is, why not licenses?

Right now the 'Intellectual Property' market is bloated in places. Let's let donation / resale make it more efficient.