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Dylan16807 on Aug 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?

And the first-sale doctrine is a restriction on contracts that is not inherently tied to copyright. We need a digital equivalent to it.

Edit: better wording

001sky on Aug 27, 2012 [–]

Another example i belive is similar was patent "exhaustion" in the apple/samsung case. If apple buys the chips from qualcom, and qualcom has a licensce, samsung can't double-dip and accuse apple of infringing on things they bought from qualcom.

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