[Rumori] Reselling Digital Music

James Allenspach jima at legnog.com
Fri Sep 5 13:22:40 PDT 2003


PeterALopez wrote:

> http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/does_the_right_of_first_sale_still_exist.php
> 
> I just posted an eBay auction for a song I bought from the iTunes music store....

Experiment's over!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/32674.html

> eBay yesterday yanked an attempt to auction an iTunes Music Service 
> download off its site, describing the item as "invalid". 
> 
> ...
> 
> eBay made its move because the auction violated its regulations on the 
> sale of electronic media which can be distributed via the Internet. eBay 
> already prohibits such sales. However, just because the auction runs 
> contrary to eBay's Ts&Cs doesn't necessarily make it a copyright 
> violation. eBay is - quite understandably - playing it safe. 

jma




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