Comments on: Can Apple Stop You From Selling Your iPod? http://almaer.com/blog/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:08:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sam Pullara http://almaer.com/blog/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod/comment-page-1#comment-20377 Sam Pullara Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:23:20 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod#comment-20377 I was thinking about this some more and they don't mention copyright explicitly so it might just be trademarks. Selling something as "Special-Edition Negativeland vs. U2 iPod" Might imply that it was from Apple since it includes something they have trademarked in its name. I was thinking about this some more and they don’t mention copyright explicitly so it might just be trademarks. Selling something as

“Special-Edition Negativeland vs. U2 iPod”

Might imply that it was from Apple since it includes something they have trademarked in its name.

]]> By: Emmanuel Pirsch http://almaer.com/blog/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod/comment-page-1#comment-20375 Emmanuel Pirsch Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:19:04 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod#comment-20375 The thing is that Apple has no business in preventing the dude to sell the thing. Apple should not enforce copyrights for others. They are not the police. Only the Negativeland copyright holder should have been able to tell eBay to remove the listing. However, the dude also did not follow eBay listing rules (http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/item_allowed.html) which prohibit to sell Recorable Media (http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/recordable.html) with copyrighted stuff unless you are the copyright holder. The thing is that Apple has no business in preventing the dude to sell the thing. Apple should not enforce copyrights for others. They are not the police.

Only the Negativeland copyright holder should have been able to tell eBay to remove the listing.

However, the dude also did not follow eBay listing rules (http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/item_allowed.html) which prohibit to sell Recorable Media (http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/recordable.html) with copyrighted stuff unless you are the copyright holder.

]]> By: Sam Pullara http://almaer.com/blog/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod/comment-page-1#comment-20373 Sam Pullara Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:57:50 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/can-apple-stop-you-from-selling-your-ipod#comment-20373 My guess is that they don't want to be taken to task for people selling iPods filled with songs that they don't have the legal right to sell to someone. In this case for instance, there probably isn't any way to legally sell the Negativeland files to another person since either they were ripped or they are only licensed from a service to the person they were originally sold to. As to why they are bothering, it might actually be in their contract with the music industry to attempt to stop these transactions from taking place. My guess is that they don’t want to be taken to task for people selling iPods filled with songs that they don’t have the legal right to sell to someone. In this case for instance, there probably isn’t any way to legally sell the Negativeland files to another person since either they were ripped or they are only licensed from a service to the person they were originally sold to. As to why they are bothering, it might actually be in their contract with the music industry to attempt to stop these transactions from taking place.

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