Showing posts with label digital music re-sale litigation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital music re-sale litigation. Show all posts

Friday, 6 April 2012

Is it legal to sell digital downloads?


More on the recent debate about the legality of consumers re-selling digital downloads they have purchased (currently being tested in the US courts in the ‘Re-Digi’ case) here from a UK perspective with reference to the new European Consumer Rights Directive and a potential revised definition of 'tangible goods'? It's all online at ComputerActive.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/consumer-rights/2142389/legal-sell-digital-downloads

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Head in the Cloud, Nose in the Statute Book

According to Digital Music News and Bloomberg, Capitol Record's US suit against online digital music re-sale site Redigi will be hammered out in open court. Rejecting Capitol's request for a summary judgement, District Court Judge Richard J Sullivan, pronounced the scrap a "fascinating issue" and said the re-sale of digitally acquired music raises important statutory and technological questions including those relating to cloud-based computing. Richard Sullivan's drink of choice here Messages of support and/or sympathy cards to be sent here.