RE: [dvd-discuss] [OT] Money-where-your-mouth-is department

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

One can separate the purchase by the terms written
on the item being bought.  Was there a price on
the book?  Was there a price on the CD?  Did you
pay a combined price, or the price of the book alone?
Was there language saying "book+cd" or "bonus CD free"?


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Cc: 'dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu';
> owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] [OT] Money-where-your-mouth-is department
> 
> 
> HOw can one separate the purchase? When one buys a book, is 
> one purchasing 
> the pages but not the cover? What of the dust jacket? The CD 
> is contained 
> in the purchased package and becomes personal property that 
> can be used or 
> disposed with or without the book.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Hartman <hartman@onetouch.com>
> Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> 10/11/2002 09:40 AM
> Please respond to dvd-discuss
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> Money-where-your-mouth-is department
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> But you did not buy the CD.  You bought the book.
> The CD was a free accompanyment.  Hence first sale
> might apply to the book, but not the CD!
> 
> If you sell the book, you would be perfectly free
> to give the CD away along with it ...
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
> 
> 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua Stratton [mailto:cpt@gryphon.auspice.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 7:36 PM
> > To: DVD-Discuss
> > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] [OT] Money-where-your-mouth-is department
> > 
> > 
> > Nevertheless, I don't care for the imposition on the 
> > first-sale rights of 
> > the CD. It's great that noncommercial copying and sharing is 
> > permitted, 
> > but you might like to resell the original CD sometime, even 
> > if you cannot 
> > resell the copies from it.
> > 
> > 
> > On 10 Oct 2002, D. C. Sessions wrote:
> > 
> > > This week I picked up a copy of David Weber's new Honor Harrington
> > > story, _War_of_Honor_.  In the back there's this CD from Baen
> > > Books.  On examination, it contains 38 plain-HTML books, including
> > > all of the other books in the Honor Harrington univers, plus filk,
> > > artwork, supplemental material, etc.
> > > 
> > > The T&C?  As printed on the CD, "This disk and its contents may
> > > be copied and shared but NOT sold."
> > > 
> > > That's it.  *Thirty-eight* freaking full books, including best
> > > sellers, all in plain file formats with no monkey business,
> > > and Baen *wants* people to 'pirate' it.  From the website, it's
> > > because Baen has hard, cold, cash records proving that every
> > > time they turn loose an electronic copy of a story the sales
> > > go up, not only for that one but for others by the same author.
> > > 
> > > I *so* want Jim Baen to testify before Congress.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > | The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to 
> > the strong. |
> > > | Because the slow, feeble old codgers like me cheat. 
> >          |
> > > +--------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> 
> > --------------+
> > > 
> > 
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