[Gllug] OT: sunday times CD

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:41:10PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:19:07PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > The cover says 'Promotional use only. Not for resale. Unauthorised duplication and use prohibited.'
> > 
> > I respect the copyright and won't make copies. What I want to query is the 'Not for resale'. I have
> > not agreed to anything. I could (I assume) resell the whole newspaper once I had finished reading it,
> > so why could I not resell part of what I received ?
> 
> You're perfectly entitled to resell it, and the Sunday Times is also
> perfectly entitled to put bogus, unsupportable threats on to the cover
> of the CD.  If people believe them, more fool them.  In the US this is
> known as the first-sale doctrine
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine].  In the EU it's
> called the exhaustion of rights
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_of_rights].  FWIW my friend
> bought about 10 of these "newspaper" CDs this morning in a car boot
> sale - they're great for uploading onto his iPod.

I thought that something like that applied. I have written to The Times asking
them to justify their restriction.

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
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