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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RE: it is illegal yo rent cds
by TimG on Mon 8th Sep 2003 06:29 UTC

It may be illegal in the US, but there is a shop here in Cologne (Germany) that has been renting CDs for years. Doesn't appear to be a huge success though -- they're still in business, but they're also still the same small shop, and there's still just the one.