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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"How is it possible that a new ordinary cd costs E 21.99 in Holland (where I live), and in Germany, for example, only E 16.99?"
Probably only because not enough people have started buying all their CDs in Germany. Once sales go down in Holland, the local shops will reduce prices.
The Euro is still quite a new thing. It will take a while for the effects to work through.