On 2006-06-30, Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And as such it is not interesting to split a book into chapters for > separate resale. One could imagine doing so with a book that's a > compilation of articles, for example. I'm quite sure that the copyright > holders would not be interested in stopping this if they could. After > all, the book has been sold and consideration has been received.
An interesting case happened some time ago here in the Netherlands. A calendar was published that contained for every month a nice reproduction of a painting, all by the same painter (Rien Poortvliet). Someone bought a lot of calendars, cut out the reproductions, framed them and sold that. The Dutch Supreme Court ruled that exhaustion (first sale) did not apply, since he was transforming the works into something new. Merijn -- Remove +nospam to reply _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
