Showing posts with label ruling holds 1st sale doctrine not applicable to digital goods. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

A Setback for Resellers of Digital Products; New York Times, 4/1/13

Ben Sisario, New York Times; A Setback for Resellers of Digital Products: "The case has been closely watched as a test of whether the first sale doctrine — the legal principle that someone who owns a copy of a copyrighted work, like a book or album, is free to resell it — can be applied to digital goods. In an order dated Saturday, Judge Richard J. Sullivan of United States District Court in Manhattan ruled that ReDigi was liable for copyright infringement, and seemed entirely unmoved by ReDigi’s arguments."