According to the well-known Apple Insider resource, Apple has applied for a patent, which deals with a system of resale and “rental” of digital products by end users.
Currently, the rights to distribute content purchased in the Apple store remain with the authors of the work.
The system described in the patent should allow users to resell, temporarily transfer for use or rent digital content purchased from iTunes. Some part of the money received by the seller will be deducted to the main copyright holders.
Some restrictions may be imposed on operations. For example, permission to sell can be obtained only after a certain period of ownership of the content. In addition, regional restrictions, setting a minimum price or limiting the number of resales are possible.
We should add that not so long ago, Amazon also filed a patent for a system for the secondary sale of digital content.
If the patent comes into force, it will immediately remove a number of controversial legal issues that have been raised more than once by consumers in the United States (many still have an imaginary lawsuit about this between Bruce Willis and Apple), and also, quite possibly, will give a second life to projects distributed for a fee. Only this time they will be promoted not by the manufacturer, but by the user himself.
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