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first-sale doctrine
noun
- a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of first-sale doctrine1
First recorded in 1920–25
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