Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review Volume 18 | Issue 2 2012 Fighting the First Sale Doctrine: Strategies for a Struggling Film Industry Sage Vanden Heuvel University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/mttlr Part of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, and the Internet Law Commons Recommended Citation Sage V. Heuvel, Fighting the First Sale Doctrine: Strategies for a Struggling Film Industry, 18 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 661 (2012). Available at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/mttlr/vol18/iss2/7 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NOTE FIGHTING THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE: STRATEGIES FOR A STRUGGLING FILM INDUSTRY Sage Vanden Heuvel* Cite as: Sage Vanden Heuvel, Fighting the FirstSale Doctrine: Strategiesfor a Struggling Film Industry, 18 MICH. TELECOMM. TECH. L. REV. 661 (2012), availableat http://www.mttlr.org/voleighteen/vandenheuvel.pdf INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 661 1. THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE, PAST AND PRESENT ....... ......... 663 A. History of the Doctrine............................663 B. Unexpected Repercussions: Netfiix and Redbox .................... 667 II. LEGISLATIVE REVISIONS TO THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE...............669 A. Expanding the First Sale Doctrine to Encompass Digital Content .............................. .............. 670 B. Excluding Digital Works from First Sale Entirely .................. 672 C. A Video Rental Amendment ................... ..... 673 D. Mandatory Streaming Licenses ................. ..... 676 III.