first sale
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code
Definitions from Case Law
From 210 U.S. 339 - Bobbs-Merrill Company v. Isidor Straus R H · 1908Most cited · 441 citing opinions
It is not denied that one who has sold a copyrighted article, without restriction, has parted with all right to control the sale of it. The purchaser of a book, once sold by authority of the owner of the copyright, may sell it again, although he could not publish a new edition of it. ... The copyright statutes, while protecting the owner of the copyright in his right to multiply and sell his production, do not create the right to impose, by notice, such as is disclosed in this case, a limitation at which the book shall be sold at retail by future purchasers, with whom there is no privity of contract.
United States Code
15 U.S.C. § 3301 — for purposes of this chapter
The term “first sale” means any sale of any volume of natural gas—
(i) to any interstate pipeline or intrastate pipeline;
(ii) to any local distribution company;
(iii) to any person for use by such person;
(iv) which precedes any sale described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii); and
(v) which precedes or follows any sale described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) and is defined by the Commission as a first sale in order to prevent circumvention of any maximum lawful price established under this chapter.