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Poster: akb Date: Mar 24, 2006 5:15am
Forum: prelinger Subject: Re: Copyrights Being Ignored ??

I read an interesting blog post recently by a copyright lawyer entitled " eBay and First Sale of Educational Books". It talks about a principle of "exhaustion" of the right to restrict sales by the copyright holder and what relevance a contract might have to someone not a party to that agreement.

The issue you raise about making DVD copies of the 16mm film and selling them, that's a copyright issue, not a first sale issue. That is, making and selling new copies of a film would not be legal whether or not the film was legally obtained, if the underlying work was protected by copyright.