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What part of right of first sale...?

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Asante Kahari, an “author of several urban fiction books” is suing Amazon.com and eBay for $500 million for helping sell used copies of his works. He claims that used bookselling is similar to illegal P2P piracy of music; he’s clearly betting that the judge has never heard of the right of first sale. (It’s a good thing nobody’s ever told him about libraries.)

Kahari’s complaint is rather amusing.

(via Techdirt)

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