Saturday 18 September 2010

first-sale doctrine

+ The doctrine is recognised by the supreme court USA

+ Allows the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of copyrighted work permission to sell or give it away

+ Copyright holders have no control over the subsequent sales of their work, unless copies are made

+ The doctrine does not allow the user to make additional copies of copyrighted work as that inflicts on copyright laws

+ Through the copying and distributing of copyrighted work, the owner of that work does not benefit

+ Renting or leasing copyrighted work for commercial use is forbidden unless it is for non profit organisations such as libraries

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