Amazon has a patent on the resale of digital content

Including the provision of products used online, the Amazon site looking for since 2009, date of the first application, to obtain a patent to provide a second life for digital products. U.S. patent office granted him his request on January 29. Now, a user wishing to use or hold more digital content may assign its rights of access to the market opportunity. The idea behind this patent would be to create a platform where users can sell digital files they wish to separate. This patent relates to ebooks, music titles and other software dematerialized. there is only a patent, no one can say for the moment that Amazon will use to become the purchaser of such access rights from potential resellers.

To a digital market Used

But the problem is with the side of digital rights, which are obviously opposed to market "second life". Until now, the resale opportunity dematerialized cultural impossible. iTunes or Amazon prohibited for a user who buys a download does not own the rights to this file. It therefore has no right to sell them.

Amazon may have found the answer with this patent, not to resell the rights to the content, but the rights to use these files. To see now how the site plans to use really.