2026-09-13 14:39 UTC
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@tyler@programming.dev 2026-09-13 20:59
You completely misunderstand the first sale doctrine. The doctrine is that copyrighted works are only controllable on the first sale. The copyright holder can’t do anything past that. The entirety of sales of things for all of humanity wouldn’t function if it was any other way. You aren’t licensing anything. You are buying an item.
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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 18:50
It won’t radicalize me against copyright because I believe people are entitled to profit from their creations, and until we live in a society beyond the need of money corporations would fuck everyone in the ass (even more so than what they do now) if there were no copyright laws. Or do you any of the mega corporations in Hollywood would give a cent in the direction of a good story of they weren’t legally required to? In any case, that is different from what Sony is doing now. Like I said before: the author can’t go into your house and take the book back they can’t force a new version of the book onto you they can’t require you to proof you own the book before they allow you to read it they can’t stop you from reselling the book. Those are not covered by copyright law, you have a right to do that with your books but not with your Sony games. This steamed from the way digital downloads came about, and we agreed to trade some rights for ease of access, but companies like GoG show that it’s possible to have digital downloads while preserving some of those rights.