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First Sale Doctrine for the movie Looking For An Echo: Hit Movies is an online retailer and legal owner of the physical copies of movies it sells, rents and exchanges such as the movie Looking For An Echo. The promotion and advertisement of all movies, such as Looking For An Echo DVD, advertised for sale or rental through the display of copies of box covers, including titles, actors names, producers, and the use of excerpts, synopses and previews of the movies is protected under the "first sale doctrine". 17 U.S.C. § 109 (a). The first sale doctrine protects the buyer's Hit Movies interest in goods it has purchased for resale and rental of such DVD movies and videos as Looking For An Echo Movie. Under the doctrine, once the copyright/trademark owner has sold its goods, such as the video movie Looking For An Echo, it has exhausted its copyright/trademark rights in those goods and can no longer dictate how or where the buyer uses or redistributes those goods. The "first sale doctrine" protects retailers, such as Hit Movies, in the promotion, advertisement, rental and sale of copyrighted works.
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