The links below answers to a survey conducted by the AIPPI. For a summary of the report, click here. Delegations from the countries were asked a series of questions on whether or not the First Sale Doctrine applied to their national IP laws. The answers from each country vary quite a bit. In some cases, answers given to the survey may be incorrect.

Argentina	Australia	Belgium	Brazil	Bulgaria
Canada	Czech Republic	Denmark	Egypt	Finland
France	Germany	Hungary	Italy	Japan
Mexico	Paraguay	Portugal	Romania	Republic of Korea
Singapore	Spain	Sweden	Switzerland	The Netherlands
United Kingdom	United States	Venezuela	Yugoslavia

Documents Relating to Digital Downloads

• November 2001. Video Software Dealers Association. Legislative Activities Report.
• August 30, 2001. Video Software Dealers Association press release. VSDA Praises Copyright Office Recognition of First Sale Rights in Digital Downloads, But Association Criticizes Failure to Account for Needs of Consumers.
• August 3, 2001. Paul Sweeting for VideoBusiness.com. Get Out those Guns Again.

• December 14, 2001. Daniel Frankel for Video Business.com. Warner dealt a DVD blow Down Under.
• 2001, Iris Freund. Published in ENT.L.R., Issue 2 Copyright: Exhaustion of Rights and Copies of Computer Program. Legal article about Austrian Supreme Court decision on software licensing.
• August 11, 2000. Andrea Foster for the Chronicle of Higher Education. New Software-Licensing Legislation Said to Imperil Academic Freedom.
• March 1999. Pamela Samuelson for the Journal of Electronic Publishing. Does Information Really Want to Be Licensed?

• January 16, 2001. Brad King for Wired Magazine. Why You Can't Sell What you Buy.
• August 20, 2001. Perry J. Viscounty, Jeff C. Risher, and Collin G. Smyser for the National Law Journal. Cyber gray market is manufacturers' headache.
• September 29, 1998. Larry Lessig in a internet roundtable on Copyrights hosted by Atlantic Monthly. Part Three: Conclusion.
• March 27, 1997. Letter to Raymond Nimmer, (from the UCC Article 2B Drafting Committee) from the American Association of Law Libraries. The letter is on the topic of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the effect it would have on the First Sale Doctrine.