SBell0105 posted...
Phase posted...
Librarys lend books out to the public and you don't have to pay for them (Author makes no money)
Actually, no. Libraries pay licensing fees up the ass.
Well there is the answer then. Legislation that requires Video Game Retailers to pay licensing fees to Developers for the right to redistribute their media.
And I assumed that the libraries had some type of fees but that didn't work for the argument.
There is. It's specifically to allow anyone to do so WITHOUT fees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
The idea being the license fee is paid exactly once per physical copy. If such a doctrine did not exist, every person that resold a copyrighted work would have to pay a fee to redistribute.
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