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Reselling loaded iPods is copyright infringement says RIAA

iLounge reports that RIAA has warned users non to sell iPods preloaded alongside music. RIAA told MTV

“Selling an iPod pre-loaded alongside music is no dissimilar than selling a DVD onto which you lot accept burned your entire music collection…Either human activeness is a clear violation of U.S. copyright law. The RIAA is monitoring this agency of infringement. In short: seller beware.”

RIAA President Cary Sherman added:

“Unlawful reproduction or distribution is infringement…There is no fair run when someone is getting a consummate re-create of a work, peculiarly a creative piece of job together with peculiarly when it could accept an adverse behaviour on on the marketplace for selling or licensing that work. When you lot purchase a CD, you lot accept it for personal run on your figurer or iPod, but you lot can’t give it away together with continue it for yourself. That’s having your cake together with eating it too. If everyone did that, [record labels] would alone sell ane CD.”

As a practical matter, the IPKat thinks it would endure rather cumbersome together with inefficient for users to take all the music from their iPods earlier sale. As a legal matter, he wonders if there’s a component for exhaustion here. In Europe at least, if you lot purchase a CD together with you lot teach fed upward alongside it, you lot tin resell it. The rights inward it are exhausted. He notes that limiting the sale of preloaded iPods could bound the complimentary produce of those iPods to a greater extent than or less the European Union market, together with thus maybe at that topographic point would endure a justification for extending exhaustion to these circumstances.

EU anti-fraud body's logo used inward fraud

Findlaw reports that OLAF, the European Union anti-fraud team has warned that its logo is itself existence used inward a scam. Fake letters are existence sent out accusing recipients of banking irregularities together with seeking payment. OLAF’S press liberate is here.

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