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Old 04-19-2017, 03:46 PM   #34
John F
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
But again it's the physical medium you're selling, not the data; you don't own the data, so you can't sell it. You could not, for example, transfer the data to a different physical medium and then sell it, but you'd be perfectly entitled to wipe the medium (assuming it's erasable) and then sell that. I.e., your property is the medium, not the data.
It is more than "just the physical medium"; you are also transferring your rights: so the next person has the same rights. The next person could resell it, rent it, ...
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