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US court rejects sale of second-hand digital goods

In the US, a district court has rejected the expansion of the first sale doctrine to cover digital files in the case of Capitol Records vs ReDigi, reports Publishers Weekly. In the case, the ReDigi website had argued that its ‘pre-owned digital marketplace’ for music fulfilled the intent of the first sale doctirne, which allows for ‘legally acquired copyrighted...

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