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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"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."
It's utterly stupid, even if it's a law and everybody is accustomed to it. Why the hell do I have to ask somebody, be it first or 337th time a particular copy is sold, as long as I DON'T MAKE MORE COPIES OF IT??? How a particular copy of copyrighted work is different from, say, a showel, as long as it remains ONE COPY? A showel can be sold however many times you want, without anybody putting some silly restrictions...