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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: jason
I don't know if any of our legal contingent can help but I have recently been threatened with legal action after selling a lot on e-bay. |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: warshawlaw
If he sold you the rights and you bought a book he made and you are trying to resell it, it sounds like you may have a defense under section 109 of the Copyright Act: |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: Matt E.
Please give Ebay auction number or link so we can see for ourselves. thanks |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: jason
Hi guys, thank you for your responses. You mainly know me as an early baseball image collector but in my pursuit of the earliest images took me into the daguerreotype collecting field too. |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: Josh K.
Im not a copyright lawyer but I believe after skimming Adam's post, that if you lawfully own the book and image, you are breaking no copyright laws by selling it. |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: ramram
Obviously, the image is your to do whatever you want with it...so the only question is - can you sell a second-hand book. Where would that put all the used bookstores across the country? What about Amazon.com that also sells second-hand books. |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: Paul
He does not have a leg to stand on. Section 113(c) of the Copyright Act authorizes exactly what you are doing: |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: Dan Lundrigan
I am by no means a legal expert but in "laymans" terms I would tell him to STUFF IT! |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: jason
I'll tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine! Cheers!!!!! |
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Ebay Legal Opinions Needed Please
Posted By: drc
I think the author's complaint is perhaps not the resale of the book (he has no case there) |
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