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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Don Cox wrote:
> 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.
No they won't. The dutch music-industry will complain that piracy is taking an even bigger share of the sale and claim that Holland is special and more prone to piracy than Germany.
It has already happened here in Denmark where a CD also costs around E 20. People are buying them online in the UK or not buying at all. (nobody wants broken copy-controlled discs).
But consumers reluctance to buying bad expensive products are taken as an argument for even tighter copyright law.