One-time resell rights

[AmosMoses]

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Louisiana

I expect that this has been asked and answered already, but I can't find it in a search. Like as not that is due to my inability to pick the correct search terms, so I apologize in advance if this is a repeat question.

If I buy an instructional CD on eBay from the publisher/copyright owner, or from someone who bought it from them (let's just say that the copy I bought is a legal copy and NOT a bootleg copy), can I legally resell that item on eBay, just that original one and never selling any copies thereof?

If so, can I relabel the CD, if I make sure that I put the same copyright notice, title, etc., on it as was on the original CD? I ask that not because I want to make my own labels for copies of CDs to sell as bootlegs, but because when I originally bought the item, I wrote my name on the label.

Essentially, I have an instructional CD that I want to resell, and I relabeled the CD by placing my own new CD label over the original CD label, making sure to include on this new label the name of the CD, the copyright notice, etc....the same info that was on the original label (you can even look fairly closely at the new label and see the original label through it)....

Thanks..

 

[divgradcurl]

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Louisiana

I expect that this has been asked and answered already, but I can't find it in a search. Like as not that is due to my inability to pick the correct search terms, so I apologize in advance if this is a repeat question.

If I buy an instructional CD on eBay from the publisher/copyright owner, or from someone who bought it from them (let's just say that the copy I bought is a legal copy and NOT a bootleg copy), can I legally resell that item on eBay, just that original one and never selling any copies thereof?

If so, can I relabel the CD, if I make sure that I put the same copyright notice, title, etc., on it as was on the original CD? I ask that not because I want to make my own labels for copies of CDs to sell as bootlegs, but because when I originally bought the item, I wrote my name on the label.

Essentially, I have an instructional CD that I want to resell, and I relabeled the CD by placing my own new CD label over the original CD label, making sure to include on this new label the name of the CD, the copyright notice, etc....the same info that was on the original label (you can even look fairly closely at the new label and see the original label through it)....

Thanks..

If the new label is basically identical to the original label, then there is probably no prpoblem with this, as long as you are upfront with your seller about why it is relabled.

Of course, if you are relabeling to hide the fact that you are selling illegal copies, then of course tyhat would not be permissible. Also, if you are relabeling to make the CD appear as if it came from another source, that is also illegal.

You need to provide more information on what exactly you are doing and why to really give you a complete answer.

 

[AmosMoses]

Exactly what I did was when I got the thing, I wrote my name on the label...I got it and another similar CD about the same time. Instead of either leaving my name on it or crudely scratching it out, I simply made another label and stuck it over the old one, using the same info (name of the company that made it, etc.). I put all the same copyright info, etc., on the new label...all of the info on the original label was transposed exactly as it appeared on the first label.

I put them both on eBay on one auction, and even on the auction listing I credited the copyright, etc. I went so far as to list the name of the CD as well as the sections, EXACTLY as they were so as to show that I wasn't trying to pawn it off as anything other than the work of this particular company.

I listed it, and it gets cancelled courtesy of a dropped dime from the people who I originally bought it from...now, it's no bigee one way or another, a few bucks, but it has me wondering, and a bit aggravated because I thought that since I bought this thing and am selling same on, the EXACT same one that it was legal. Obviously, on eBay if you tried to sell more than one CD of a certain type you would leave a record of it, however, as I said the only one I listed was this one and I SURE wasn't gonna try to burn it and sell others....in fact, there is a number "in" the plastic of the inner part of the CD (not on the label but actually in the plastic), I guess you'd call it a serial number, so obviously I couldn't fake that if I wanted to....there is no doubt that the CD that I listed is one and the same as the one I bought. The ONLY possible thing that I could be trying to "pull" in doing this would have been to burn a copy or copies and kept them to try to sell, but the fact is, plain and simple, that if I did, and attempted to sell them, then it would be obvious what I did, since I only bought one copy of the thing.

Like I said, it's no big deal either way, but I was under the opinion that it was legal.