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They will keep selling and re-selling copies of this dataset as long as there are interested buyers.


There may be some sort of exclusivity clause that comes with the sale - though, of course, that's no guarantee of anything.


Does the first sale doctrine apply to B2B?


First sale doctrine only applies to physical copies.


I'm not sure if buying a CD from Walmart is comparable to buying a large business full of people's personal data.


That’s not what has been happening with DiscovEHR and Regeneron Genetics Center data.


So far


So the database of DNA will continue to be copied, and copied, and copied...

Life, uh, really does find a way!


Licensing, not selling.




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