Judge Rules Selling of Promo CDs Is Legal
jamie on June 13th, 2008
Following up on a previous post about a lawsuit in which Universal Music tried to sue Troy Augusto for selling promo CDs on eBay, a U.S. District Judge in LA ruled this week that Universal Music Group gave up ownership of the CDs when it mailed them to Augusto. Therefore, the first sale doctrine holds, and Augusto was within his rights to sell the discs.
You can follow the case, in which Augusto is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the EFF’s website.
