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A few months ago, Universal Music Group filed suit in federal court against California resident Troy Augusto, who makes a living selling used CDs on eBay. Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann explains why the suit threatens a century-old tenet of copyright law known as the First Sale Doctrine.
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Great discussion with a true hero of balanced IP policy. I've blogged it on Madisonian.net, concluding with the following:
"Cory Doctorow claims that, rather than putting into place some sensible collective licensing scheme, "The record industry giants would prefer to go on suing music fans and technology companies -- an activity that pays the record companies handsomely, while encouraging fans to defect from buying music in the future, and which does not pay one cent to any artist." Though the industry probably feels that analysis is unfair, it does not help its own image with lawsuits like this."
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