Explainer About ReDigi: If You Own It, Can You Sell It?
This is an explainer of a decision you may have heard people talking about: Capitol Records v. ReDigi, Inc. Can you re-sell digital content you’ve legally acquired over the internet? The Problem: How...
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ReDigi and Aereo: Looking Under the Technological Hood
Is Copyright Law a “Turnkey” Solution? The ReDigi dispute has been going on since 2011. If you don’t believe me, you can read my blogs about it dating to then. I wrote an explainer last time about the...
View ArticleReDigi Redux: Essentials of the Essential Step Defense (Part 16 of our Online...
Digital Content: Dumb Data or Clever Instructor? I received so many comments on my ReDigi post that I need to write a couple of follow-up posts to address the good questions. This post and the next...
View ArticleReDigi Finale: Comparing Apples to Amazons (Part 20 in Our Online Music...
And Other Loose Ends. This is going to be (I hope) the last post about the ReDigi situation, at least for a while. I’ll admit I got distracted by the RIAA’s little missive to ReDigi. I want to sum up...
View ArticleMusic Industry v. ReDigi: Cute or Clever?
Is ReDigi a Marketplace or a Music Locker? I am compelled to blog about ReDigi one more time because, at long last, we actually know how ReDigi operates. And it’s not *quite* how ReDigi says it works...
View ArticleMusic Industry v. ReDigi: The Problem with Phonorecords: Copyright
When Is a Phonorecord Not a Phonorecord? Last time, we finally figured out how ReDigi operates and how it plans to get around the fact that it must make at least one (and often two) intermediate copies...
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Copyright Holders Eat ReDigi's Cake and Have it, Too
But is the Cake a Lie? As many of you know, the trial court in Capitol Records v. ReDigi ruled over the weekend that ReDigi’s business model of re-selling digital music files infringed the copyright....
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Shoot that Poison Aereo to My Heart! How a Copyright Decision Can Be So Wrong...
Free-Riding on a Dream By coincidence, the SDNY’s rejection of ReDigi’s business model happened at almost the same time as the Second Circuit’s seeming affirmation of Aereo’s business model. This...
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Tom Brady, I Choose You! How the Tweet-Embedding Decision Is Both Disturbing...
We Don’t Serve Your Kind Here Wow, there have been a lot of really interesting copyright cases in just the last two or three weeks! It’s like being a candy store with money, but you’re full. I’ll try...
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