I shouldn't.All of that ^^^ is not different than song copyright. Intellectual property is not like buying a toaster oven.
When you buy a CD...your rights are basically limited to being able to play/listen to the CD.
I really shouldn't.
But in for a penny; in for a pound.
There is no debate. There is only talk and all of that in places like this and none of it in places like courtrooms.
When you buy a CD, you bought a CD and it's yours and all yours. That's what retail means. All else is Restraint of Trade. You can play it. You can melt it. You can throw it in the air and shoot it with a shotgun. You can sell it to the used CD store. You can sell it to your friend. You can trade it for a watermelon. You can glue it to your satellite dish. The list is endless. And you can make all the copies you want. IOW, it's almost exactly like buying a toaster oven in almost every respect. Your ownership is sacrosanct and sovereign above all other claims to that point.
But... when you "re-enter the revenue stream" with the CD, the plastic, the case, or any program material, now things change. NOW you've created an encroachment that can be held liable against you.
Using the toaster oven example: You can pound out a new metal box, no one cares. You can make the dial bigger, smaller, or the same, no one cares. But when you use West Bend or Black&Decker or whatever name, then you're in deep do-do. We all know this. That same do-do applies to the CD except unlike the toaster oven, it applies to almost all of it because almost all of it is IP.
And just like the toaster oven, if you sell it at a garage sale, it's not that they WON'T come after you, it's that they CAN'T come after you. They have no legal standing and no case of merit. It's somewhat like they, the posturing playground bully saying, "I'd beat him up but it's not worth my time." In reality it's more like me, the karate instructor saying, "Come beat me up and let's see who gets their butt kicked." They have no case.
So i'm not treading on thin ice nor am i transacting under some benevolence grant. Once they went retail, and for that matter, once their song appears on the public airwaves or in the CD bin at the public library, all kinds of legal subtleties kick in. And yes, you're right there. THAT debate is endless when those rabbit trails are explored.
Their agreements are worded in such a way as to say, "this is totally ours and if you don't like it, go do something else." But as your Momma taught you long ago, just because some bully says so doesn't make it so. In reality, the law has uniformly told them, "you don't get to control all you say you can. If you don't like it, go do something else."
Like an "FBI Warning" on the front of an old VHS tape, people will read it and think they understand because, hey, they couldn't say it if it wasn't so, right? In the Real World, that's just not how things are.
Okay, I gotta bow out. All yours.
P5