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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CD vending machines.

Put credit card in, pick a cd. When you return it you only get charged a small fee for use (wear and tear on the item) or a small user fee to use the machine that way you are not renting the cd you are only charging for using a machine. If you don't return the cd your credit card gets billed for the full amount of the cd.

You can earn credits for use by giving a cd to the machine. Lets say you supply a cd, you then get 7 machine uses on your account.

You can then listen to the cd all you want and as many time as you want within the time frame of lets say 14 days. If you don't return the cd you get billed.

Now if you scratch it the machine is smart and will test it, if the cd is bad you get billed for it.

CD Vending Machine Library (CDVML) Put one in every shopping mall.

Now take that a step further, connect all the machines to each other via private network. The main headquarter has all the cds in stock and the machines use computers and burn the cds for the customer as needed. Use current dvd technology and the cd will self destruct in 14 days. After 14 days the cd can be recycled back into the system. And you can only lend out as many copies as the headquarter has.

Now remeber you are not renting the cds you are loaning them just like a library does. The difference it you are charging a user fee for the the use of a machine. (just like ATM's do). If someone likes what they borrowed they can then go purchase it and everyone is happy.

This is a copyrighted thought and if this every happens then I want my royalties per cd used or loaned. 10 cents per cd sounds good.

PS, oops, I guess they could copy it while they had it anyway. But then again don't people copy movies from the movie rentals or can copy it from any real library. hmmm guess theres always a catch 22 on things.