The used bookstore may be a thing of the past, and so may the legal principle behind it — that once a physical work is sold, it may then be resold without violating its creator's copyright. CJR's Sarah Laskow writes about efforts to extend that practice to digital media, and what that means to both creators and consumers: "As scholars and advocates look at reforming copyright law, updating the first sale doctrine could be one of the more contentious issues."
.png)
