HTH wrote>"Right of first sale pretty well established"
Yep, but there is a loop hole in the first sale doctrine. It is called the so called license perversion:
no first sale, therefore no first sale ownership rights!!
No product is sold. Only a license to use.
The ownership and title to the
product is
never transferred.
You may own the bag, the packaging; but you do not own the thingee inside the bag.
The fine print of the latest 'CDs', you may think you 'purchased', says you did
not purchase the CD.
You only purchased a
license to use the CD per the fine print license terms.
Not all that different from the JRiver
license that you agree to with each beta download.
That license requires you to destroy previous versions (so much for ownership rights) and not to peek at the bits you have downloaded-that would be 'decompiling' or 'reverse engineering', both a violation of the JRiver license you agree to.
Soon the music moguls will forbid you from eyeballing both sides of the CD, too closely.
They may even license the left and right ear for separate use.
[former member]