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Wouldn’t that fall under the first-sale doctrine? Once a copy is created, it is legal to sell that copy. It is the act of copying itself which might not fulfill the obligations of the license and might therefore break copyright law. I.e. it is the factory making TVs which is at fault here, not people re-selling TVs.


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