• The first-sale doctrine (also sometimes referred to as the "right of first sale" or the "first sale rule") is an American legal concept that limits the...
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  • owner. This limitation is also referred to as the exhaustion doctrine or first sale doctrine. For example, if an inventor obtains a patent on a new kind...
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    whether digital music purchases are eligible for resale under the first-sale doctrine. On March 30, 2013, Judge Richard J. Sullivan ruled in favor of Capitol...
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  • copyright law, the first-sale doctrine does not act as a defense to claims of infringing distribution and importation for unauthorized sale of authentic, imported...
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  • Court copyright decision in which the Court held, 6–3, that the first-sale doctrine exhausts copyright of the works lawfully made or purchased abroad...
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    copyrighted book or CD. In the United States this is known as the first-sale doctrine, and was established by the courts to clarify the legality of reselling...
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  • to U.S. law. The exhaustion doctrine, also referred to as the first sale doctrine, is a U.S. common law patent doctrine that limits the extent to which...
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  • under the first-sale doctrine, Adobe can not control how SoftMan resells those particular copies of Adobe software after the initial sale. The Court...
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  • limited. Examples of such limitations include the first-sale doctrine in the United States and the doctrine of the exhaustion of rights in the European Union...
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    Western District of Washington regarding the applicability of the first-sale doctrine to software sold under the terms of so-called "shrinkwrap licensing...
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    digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, as the first-sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an...
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    growing software industry. This practice was legal, thanks to the first-sale doctrine which allows anyone to distribute an instance of a copyrighted work...
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    first-sale doctrine protects their work. The first-sale doctrine prevents copyright holders from controlling consumptive uses after the "first sale"...
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    to offer full contents of books in digital formats as part of the first-sale doctrine and fair use law. The Open Library owns a physical copy of each book...
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  • official Trader Joe's shop due to their dissimilar designs, the first-sale doctrine could also apply in large-scale reselling operations like Pirate...
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    Instead, the defendants argued that their action was protected by the first-sale doctrine 17 U.S.C §109(a) (1977). After reviewing the facts, the court found...
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  • Victor Calaba: "...first, license agreements imposed by software manufacturers typically prohibit exercise of the first sale doctrine; second, traditional...
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    found in Section 109 of the 1976 Copyright Protection Act. The "first sale doctrine," basically establishes that when a copyright owner has transferred...
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  • filed motions for summary judgment addressing the issue whether the First Sale Doctrine applies to previously licensed software. The Court ruled in Vernor's...
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    licensing agreements are needed (a principle referred to as the first sale doctrine) and no patent was violated. However, in 2010 Apple still sued one...
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  • sold. The Court's ruling established what came to be known as the "first-sale doctrine", which was later codified as § 109(a) of the Copyright Act of 1976...
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    variant of the Ford Mustang, and is protected in the U.S. by the First-sale doctrine and similar legal concepts in most other countries. While Mac clones...
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  • American first-sale doctrine, where artists do not have the right to control or profit from subsequent sales. The droit de suite was first proposed in...
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    mastertones offered through third party distributors. After reviewing the First Sale Doctrine and the nature of Aftermath's contracts with its distributors, the...
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    market securities Green market Legal aspects Copyright infringement First-sale doctrine Warranty Trademark Political aspects Agorism Anarchism Copyleft Counter-economics...
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    participate in decision-making. Value-added reseller Price discrimination First-sale doctrine Recommerce Ticket resale Vargas, Andrea (2021-12-23). "16 Best Places...
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    other party - were not met. Universal Music Group v. Augusto another first-sale doctrine case MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc, Order (D...
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  • in order to avoid the transfer of rights to the end-user via the doctrine of first sale (see Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology). These software...
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  • like every Mac conversion before it, protected in the U.S. by the First-sale doctrine and similar legal concepts in most other countries. Currently the...
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  • that the first-sale doctrine applies to the domestic sale of foreign copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad. The first-sale doctrine (also known...
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