“Consumers can resell CDs purchased in a record shop, but what about digital music files downloaded from an online store?
.George Hotelling wants to know. In a move that could spark a novel legal test of Internet music resale rights, the Web developer in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday night put a digital song he purchased online at Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store up for auction on eBay.
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The effort has apparently resonated with online music aficionados, many of whom have expressed anger at copyright controls used by licensed Internet music services, including iTunes. With the auction set to end Sept.
9, the price on the song had gone up to $15,099 as of Wednesday evening.”
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