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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Actually, you or I could start out own blockbuster type store with the DVDs we own.
There is no law requiring Blockbuster to pay a rental charge.
It falls under the first sale doctrine.
If you buy it, you rent it, sell it, let someone borrow it, or stomp into the ground.