It's Illegal to Resell Your iTunes Purchases

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Posted April 1, 2013 at 9:20pm by iClarified

U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan has sided with Universal Music against ReDigi and ruled that it's illegal to resell your digitally purchased music.

AllThingsD, notes that the judge filed the partial summary judgement on Saturday and requests that both sides report back by April 12th for the next steps.

Sullivan’s argument, in a nutshell: Unless the copyright owner gives you explicit permission to do so, you can’t resell a digital media file. ReDigi used multiple arguments to support its case, including the “first sale doctrine” that supports companies like Netflix when it comes to physical goods; you can see Sullivan shoot them all down in his decision.

In his conclusion, Sullivan says, "the Court cannot of its own accord condone the wholesale application of the first sale defense to the digital sphere, particularly when Congress itself has declined to take that step."

The full ruling is linked below...

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It's Illegal to Resell Your iTunes Purchases

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Huigie - April 2, 2013 at 1:41pm

And this is why you should always buy a hard copy!

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DH - April 1, 2013 at 11:48pm

Try that argument in Europe judge. Sign up for an EU iTunes account and the EU will support you in reselling. When you buy something in Europe, it's yours to do with what you like. Unless you live in Cyprus of course. Maybe ReDigi should start accepting bitcoins, then US won't be able to detect who's selling what.

stevo - April 1, 2013 at 10:18pm

how about if i gave out my login and password when i die

TheNovaFilms - April 1, 2013 at 10:19pm

Then your offspring will pay for it

odedoo1 - April 1, 2013 at 9:58pm

if would have ever bought music I would give copies for free, but that's me I don't buy unless its on a CD.

TheNovaFilms - April 1, 2013 at 10:01pm

It's illegal to give it out for free.. But that's just me I like to be legal

Frii Stuf - April 2, 2013 at 2:38am

I like free stuff but thats just me

Moon - April 1, 2013 at 9:50pm

Ok thx for the tip.

odedoo1 - April 1, 2013 at 9:45pm

what about if I want to sell my Apple account with thousands of paid Apps in it????

TheNovaFilms - April 1, 2013 at 9:47pm

Why would you want to do that??? If people want paid apps they buy them on they're account... If you want to make money, go sell mods on MW2

odedoo1 - April 2, 2013 at 8:37am

well right now I wouldn't sell but I've been a beta tester since the App Store opened up, so I got a collection of over 7,000 paid Apps on one of my iTunes accounts, I never calculated it but to be a beta tester you need to have all iDevices and out of the 7,000 at least 2,000 are iPad only Apps that worth like $5 each, any way make the math and you'll see that if I sold it for $10,000 the buyer will get a bargain, but friends get to share, because Apple rule if I remember right is up to 5 or ten devices to an account.

TheNovaFilms - April 1, 2013 at 9:34pm

No shit... Of course you can't resell a downloaded song, iclarified has some bad posts these days...