Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday April 2, 2013 @12:03AM from the first-sale-does-not-apply dept.

Redigi runs a service that lets you resell your digitally purchased music. Naturally, they were sued by major labels soon after going live, with heavyweights like Google weighing in with support and an initial victory against pre-trial injunctions. But the first actual court ruling is against them. Pikoro writes "A judge has sided with Capitol Records in the lawsuit between the record company and ReDigi — ruling that MP3s can only be resold if granted permission by copyright owners. From the article: 'The Order is surprising in light of last month's United States Supreme Court decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, which reaffirmed the importance and applicability of the First Sale Doctrine in the United States of America.'" Redigi vows to appeal, and claims that the current version of their service is not affected by the lawsuit.

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Let's look at this more closely by bio_end_io_t · 2013-04-02 00:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Clearly the judge is a firm believer in piracy, else he wouldn't have made that ruling. Seriously though, people are trying to sell "used" mp3's?

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1. Re:Let's look at this more closely by Opportunist · 2013-04-02 00:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hey, they're as good as new!
  
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  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Copyright = right to control permission to copy by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-02 00:15 · Score: 4, Funny

But I dont Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V but I only do Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V! Honestly!