“A customer of Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store said he has successfully resold a he song purchased through the service, ending a weeklong exercise he hoped would highlight the legal and technical nuances of emerging digital music services,” Evan Hansen reports for CNET News.com. “George Hotelling, a Web developer in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday reported the details of the transfer on his Web log.”
“In an interview Wednesday, Hotelling said he was able to give the song to a friend, Keith Elder, a Web developer in Ypsilanti, Mich., whom he met through an Internet discussion group. In order to close the deal, Hotelling said he had to transfer control of his entire iTunes Music Store account to Elder. He said he intends to demand 50 cents from Elder for the account, which included one song, the Devin Vasquez remake of Frankie Smith’s song “Double Dutch Bus,” which he’d originally purchased for 99 cents,’ Hansen reports.
“‘For the average user, I’d definitely say this was extremely difficult,’ he said. ‘I guess you could say we’re both extreme geeks.’ An Apple representative said the company would meet Wednesday to discuss its iTunes Music Store resale policy and that she expected to make a statement later in the day,” Hansen reports.
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