The Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990: Another Bend in the First Sale Doctrine
Kenneth R. Corsello · Scholarship at Catholic Law (Catholic University of America) · 1991
In his opening remarks at the House subcommittee hearing on the Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990 (Software Act), Chairman Kastenmeier explained that "'[a] bill to change the first sale doctrine, then, is not a modest proposal.It is... a major substantive proposal involving a fundamental change in one of the main tenets of copyright law.'"Software Rental Amendments of 1990: Hearing Before the Subcomm.on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Admin. of Justice of the House Comm.on the Judiciary, 101st Cong., 2d Sess. 2 (1990) [hereinafter House Software Hearing] (statement of Rep. Robert Kastenmeier) (quoting Prof. David Lange).2. 17 U.S.C.A. § 106(3) (West 1977 & Supp.1991).3. 17 U.S.C.A. § 109 (West 1977 & Supp.1991); Bobbs-Merrill Co. v.