iPass Away – Do My Digital Downloads Die with Me?
March 8th, 2012
Never mind the fact that there are no used e-book stores, check this out!
Via: Which?:
As it stands, the rights of iTunes and Amazon customers look pretty shaky when it comes to passing on downloads. If you buy a music track from a digital store, you’re essentially buying a licence to play that track – a licence granted to you only, which isn’t transferable upon death.
Legally you’re essentially just renting tracks – you don’t actually own them, as Matthew Strain of law firm Strain-Keville pointed out to us in the latest issue of Which? Computing:
‘We do not “own� what we purchase on iTunes, we only have the right to use it. The right to the “product� is therefore limited and passing it on to someone else is not likely to be accepted by Apple.’
The issue extends to the rapidly-growing ebooks market as well – Amazon’s Kindle licence explicitly forbids you from passing on your downloaded ebooks:
‘Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sublicence or otherwise assign any rights to the digital content or any portion of it to a third party.’
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