You can sell your CD collection to whomever you like. You can even open a used CD store, on the corner or online. But you can't resell your MP3s, nor can you operate a service that allows it. That's according to a US District Court decision now handed down in ReDigi vs. Capitol Records, one that steps into the murky digital waters of the 'first sale doctrine'.
Whether ReDigi could have built a business off of re-selling MP3s is another question entirely, one that probably will never get tested. The company will probably now be forced to shut down or completely pivot, barring some sort of challenge. "ReDigi facilitates and profits from the sale of copyrighted commercial recordings, transferred in their entirety, with a likely detrimental impact on the primary market for these goods," US District Court judge Richard Sullivan opined.
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