Star First Sale vs. "Fair Play": The iTunes Music Store Gets Tested
Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Multimedia, AV Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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oh....so AAC
by debman on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:22 UTC

So AAC is a standard eh...

I thought Apple made it up just like MS made up WMA.

anyway, this guy should just sell the song to his buddy, then when his buddy can't use the thing, sue in federal court, I am sure Lessig would represent him pro-bono.