Last year Universal Music Group (UMG) filed a lawsuit against Troy Augusto claiming he was violating copyright law by offering promotional CDs for sale. Now a federal district court has ruled that UMG's copyright wasn't violated by the sales.
At issue is the legal force of warnings on the CDs, which were sent (free of charge) to radio stations. UMG claimed that since they weren't actually ... [ read the full article ]
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its a case of, "this is yours but you're not allowed to sell it", kinda rings of media licensing, the great system that is not anti-consumer in any way shape or form, Universal just think they can treat physical media the same, but what do you expect from any riaa/mpaa member!
Quote:UMG claimed that since they weren't actually sold the first sale doctrine, which allows you to do what you please with goods you've purchased, has no application.
Universal needs to remember this when they want to sue some one. And what are they going to do to all the second hand stores that sell CD's and DVD's???
I could understand this with Autodesk autocad due to fake serials and illegal serials to there autocad suite but if the person decides to sell the software at a garage sale or a goodwill or other thrift store.
What the heck are they going to due thrift stores do not fall under this no resale bull
