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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my world view is destroyed
by Ranger Rick on Mon 8th Sep 2003 13:04 UTC

An article that sites sources! =)

Thanks for the interesting article, this is the first time I've heard the real reason this is interesting, without all of the annoying slashdot "oh my god" focusing on the selling rather than the repercussions.