{"id":3699,"date":"2006-09-20T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/09\/20\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-owner-or-"},"modified":"2006-09-20T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T07:30:09","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-owner-or-mere-possessor-under-17-usc-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/09\/20\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-owner-or-mere-possessor-under-17-usc-109\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does it Mean To Be an &#8220;Owner&#8221; or &#8220;Mere Possessor&#8221; Under 17 USC 109?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2567'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In light of my last posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/09\/17#a2551\">first sale as applied to copies &#8220;rented&#8221; through Rhapsody,<\/a> I&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/discuss\/msgReader$2551?mode=topic\">an interesting exchange<\/a> about what it means to be an &#8220;owner of a copy&#8221; in terms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/html\/uscode17\/usc_sec_17_00000109----000-.html\">17 USC 109<\/a> (the &#8220;first sale&#8221; doctrine), and what rights you have to a lawfully made copy you rent from Blockbuster or Rhapsody. My thoughts are admittedly rough &#8212; does anyone else have a clearer answer?&nbsp; Regardless, thanks to my interlocutor, <a href=\"http:\/\/analoghole.com\/\">&#8220;analoghole,&#8221;<\/a> for some old-fashioned copyright geekery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my last posts about first sale as applied to copies &#8220;rented&#8221; through Rhapsody, I&#8217;ve had an interesting exchange about what it means to be an &#8220;owner of a copy&#8221; in terms of 17 USC 109 (the &#8220;first sale&#8221; doctrine), and what rights you have to a lawfully made copy you rent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}