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?
E-mail Print r 0   · Read More · 45 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/3fm
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Cheapo
by Shawna on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:58 UTC

So THAT'S why the RIAA has never gone after Cheapo. I always wondered about that...they don't get a single dime off the sale of a CD at Cheapo, yet I haven't heard them bitch or moan about it.

The fog lifts.