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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Selling a NC'd book? (Re: Question about possible use of NC works)
  • Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:57:42 -0400

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:27 pm, Greg London wrote:
> drew Roberts said:
> > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 01:05 pm, wiki_tomos wrote:
> >> If you are given a bound book licensed under CC-nc, and wants to give it
> >> to a friend, auction it online, or sell it to a used bookstore, that's
> >> no problem, in my understanding.
> >
> > Off the top, and without further evidence, that would be my take as well.
>
> I'd agree within the case of one copy of a book.
>
> If more than one copy of the same book were involved
> then it might qualify as "distributing" the work
> at some point, but I'm not sure.

See, this is where things get crazy/confusing. So if a used book store were
to
advertise a willingness to buy used copies of such a book, there would be
some law which prevents this? The "first sale doctrine" would only apply
where there was an actual sale?

all the best,

drew




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