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Apple Responds To iTunes "First Sale" Question

Posted by timothy on from the are-the-hoops-worth-the-jumping dept.

atallah writes "It looks like Apple has come out and explained its position on resale of songs. It is interesting that they didn't flat-out reject the idea. Check out this Business Week article."

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  1. Re:more than one reason to copy an iTunes song by Lumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't personally do it for resale or illegal copying; I'm a jazz musician, and when I want to practice and memorize a new song, I make versions of it that are electronically sped up and slowed down so that it's in 6 or 7 different keys, so that I can practice playing along with it in all those different keys.

    see again people don't understand copyright.

    you say you are not doing anything illegal, but you ARE. if you play that song you just learned, in public, you are VIOLATING the COPYRIGHT!

    did you get performance rights from ASCAP and BMI?

    Another reason that music copyright is a major mess.

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