Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
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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My 3 cents.
1) From what I read of the itunes agrement you don't buy the
music you license if to a personal performance.
2) etunes sells you the track so you could sell them.
-) Don't forget you will need to provide a paper trail
since etunes has no drm and no physical source.
3) Buy news guys RIAA isn't doing anything wrong. RIAA is acting for it's members to protect their rights. RIAA has only gone after people distributing music not downloading it. EFF dosen't have a case. (When you share music and advertise your computer through a P2P system you invite people to come get your music. RIAA follow your invinatation found their members property their and decided to to recover losses.)
4) Losing money as an corporation is never a good thing.
5) The big 5 labels released over 30,000 new items (bar coded releases last year) me thinks you will find that their is something you will like in there.
6) re Shawna
You are not fighting RIAA you are supporting an industry. HOwevere since those artist never make money I wonder how long they will stay in business.
7) On the idea of the Artist, P2P and the "new economic model" is their any "good" (being a relative term) open source project that hasn't at some time been backed by a university or corporation????
Donaldson
Final Note: I support the FBI's carnarvore. why??? because I would rather have the Internet packets treated like speech at a curb side cafe then then a system where your packets on leaving your machine are protected (privacy) THat is the US mail system and that means the goverment can regulatw the packets. Freedom has a price, and freedom at a cafe may mean some listens in.