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First sale just says that if you sell a copy you legally own of a copyrighted work that does not infringe the copyright owner's distribution right. That just me
by tzs 3y ago
First sale just says that if you sell a copy you legally own of a copyrighted work that does not infringe the copyright owner's distribution right. That just means that if the copyright owner wants to stop the sale they will not be able to turn to copyright law to do so.
It does not mean that they can't turn to some other method to stop the sale. In this case they would turn to contract law. You defense to that would not involve first sale. It would involve trying to argue that a contract was not formed.
- axoltl 3y agoThis is what I understood the first-sale doctrine to be as well. Turns out there's a whole separate section for trademark law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine#Overview_of_trademark_law_application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine#Overview_o... Does that prevent you re-selling a device with an unlocked bootloader if you clearly indicate that it is unlocked? Probably not, but it's more complicated than I thought at first glance.