OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

First Sale vs. "Fair Play": The iTunes Music Store Gets Tested

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?

0 · Read More · 45 Comment(s)

http://osne.ws/3fm

Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.

RE: Too bad he didn't buy it.

by SCREWtheCARTELS on Mon 8th Sep 2003 06:20 UTC

"3) Buy news guys RIAA isn't doing anything wrong."

You don't call price-fixing(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32048.html) wrong?

If you don't, what about payola(http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/03/13/indie_promotion/)?

Sounds like a strange sense of values to me.