natch.net — Think the record companies have only recently come up with the concept of screwing the consumer to maximize profits? According to this antique license, if you paid less than a dollar a song ($22 adjusting for inflation!), you could not listen to the music you legally purchased!
Jun 18, 2007 View in Crawl 4
terracottapaiJun 19, 2007
Records aren't magnetic, tapes are.
laserethJun 19, 2007
I'm gonna puke if I see the word DRM one more time
Closed AccountJun 19, 2007
DRM.Yeah, I had to do it.
fuzzynyankoJun 19, 2007
Wow. Legal English wording hasn't changed much since 1909.
mtcantorJun 19, 2007
This license is illegitimate under the First Sale Doctrine. Its a fundamental principle of US Copyright Law. Basically means that if make something I can sell it for a certain price, but if someone else buys it from me to sell again, I cannot control what price they sell it at. Record companies weren't able to get away with this, even back then. Book publishers tried to do this too. Didn't work for them either.
gameskillphilJun 25, 2007
I am not 100% sure but that record should be out of copyright and be under free domain. So the owner should not be worried