Re: Renting Books

On Mon, Nov 23, 1998, Carol Simpson <csimpson[_at_]onramp.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Laura N. Gasaway <laura_gasaway[_at_]unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Congress has restricted the first sale doctrine for two types of
> > works: records and computer software. Even for those restrictions,
> > there exemptions for nonprofit libraries that loan copies of these
> > works to users for nonprofit purposes.
>
> I knew about software, but I thought the CD/record thing hadn't been
> set. What about all these second-hand CD stores around? How do they
> get around this?

Two points:

1. "Loan" is not a verb; use "lend".
2. Second-hand CD stores sell, they don't lend.

Michael A Scarpitti
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e-mail mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org Received on Wed Nov 25 1998 - 14:10:27 GMT