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Does the Right of First Sale work with songs bought using iTunes?
In an interesting move, George of 90% Crud is trying to sell a song bought using iTunes on eBay. Nothing in iTunes's licencing seems to indicate in any way that it would in any way would be against it's rules. Knify situation, Apple. For more data, see: 90% Crud:Does the Right of First Sale Still Exist?
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1. September 4, 2003 04:23 AM
2. September 4, 2003 09:56 AM
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liorean Posted…
Well, I think the same DRM that wants to prevent actual illegal copying should also be responsible for the rights of the user, such as that which allows reselling. With iTunes, tagging the file to prevent other people than the buyer to use it, and having a file system that keeps track of copies, changing the ownership should not be too tricky.
Chuckie Posted…
I would think not, digital music (or anything) ceases being a tangible asset. When a CD was sold, you could no longer hold it, listen to it. With digital media, it's an abstraction, the song is just an idea it doesn't have any physical being. It's just a grouping of ones and zeros on the hard drive. Someone could claim to be "selling" the original, yet still have a copy on the hard drive. There is no way to know, without some watchdog agency doing a through search of the seller’s hard drive. Of course then the seller could just burn a copy and put it in a safe place.