Re: CD resales

At 3:27 PM 9/25/95, Mark Lemley wrote:
>
> You pay $5 down. If you return
> the program in good condition within 3 days, you forfeit the $5, but
> don't have to pay the rest. If not, you owe the $50.
>
> Illegal rental (software too is excepted from 109 rentals), or legal
> "if you don't like it, return it" marketing strategy?

IMHO, clearly the former. My understanding, BTW, is that the software publishers claim that even garden variety returns of software (without any special program like the above to promote it) are illegal rentals/lendings, although some have abandoned that position and now offer an explicit "satisfaction guarantee" as a marketing tool.

Jeffrey B. Siegal
<jbs[_at_]quiotix.com> Received on Tue Sep 26 1995 - 19:35:35 GMT