The first-sale doctrine (also sometimes referred to as the "right of first sale" or the "first sale rule") is a legal concept that limits the rights of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

under the first-sale doctrine, Adobe can not control how SoftMan resells those particular copies of Adobe software after the initial sale. The Court...

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...

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...

Western District of Washington regarding the applicability of the first-sale doctrine to software sold under the terms of so-called "shrinkwrap licensing...

CDs" under the "first sale doctrine" embodied in 17 U.S.C. § 109. (In fact, since "Promo CDs" are never sold, only licensed, that doctrine simply does not...

first-sale doctrine protects their work. The first-sale doctrine prevents copyright holders from controlling consumptive uses after the "first sale"...

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...

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...

found in Section 109 of the 1976 Copyright Protection Act. The "first sale doctrine," basically establishes that when a copyright owner has transferred...

Victor Calaba: "...first, license agreements imposed by software manufacturers typically prohibit exercise of the first sale doctrine; second, traditional...

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...

filed motions for summary judgment addressing the issue whether the First Sale Doctrine applies to previously licensed software. The Court ruled in Vernor's...

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...

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...

participate in decision-making. Value-added reseller Price discrimination First-sale doctrine Recommerce Ticket resale Vargas, Andrea (2021-12-23). "16 Best Places...

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...

official Trader Joe's shop due to their dissimilar designs, the first-sale doctrine could also apply in large-scale reselling operations like Pirate...

growing software industry. This practice was legal, thanks to the first-sale doctrine which allows anyone to distribute an instance of a copyrighted work...

other party - were not met. Universal Music Group v. Augusto another first-sale doctrine case MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc, Order (D...

a time under the controlled digital lending (CDL) theory of the first-sale doctrine. On June 1, 2020, four large publishing houses – Hachette Book Group...

mastertones offered through third party distributors. After reviewing the First Sale Doctrine and the nature of Aftermath's contracts with its distributors, the...

subject-matter claimed in the patent) is not patentable and therefore the doctrine of equivalents does not apply. A freedom-to-operate search is a search...