Over at the American, I’ve got a new piece up on the First Sale Doctrine, shrinkwrap licenses, and EFF’s new “promo CD” case. My favorite part was the part I didn’t write:
“Frankly, UMG’s argument reminds me of the one made by the goblin banker in the latest Harry Potter book—that somehow everything made by UMG remains their property forever, even after it is sold or given away,” von Lohmann says. “As readers of the book will recall, that’s not how the law works, not even in the fantasy world of J. K. Rowling.”
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