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New law seems to ban resale of toys Items sold for kids must be certified lead-free on Feb. 10 Thursday, January 1, 2009 3:29 AM By Bill Bush THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The toys Allison George likes to buy at Trader Tots may not be available under a law that goes into effect Feb. 10. Trader Tots has been buying and selling used toys in Grandview Heights for almost two decades, but it, like resale shops nationwide, fears that a new law will force costly lead tests and hurt business. Congress enacted the law last year in response to recalls of...

A Seattle man is suing Autodesk for abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in an attempt to restrict the resale of its software. The plaintiff, Tim Vernor, alleges that Autodesk has repeatedly sent copyright infringement notices to eBay, where he has tried to sell legal copies of Autodesk software, because the company does not want the used copies to compete with new sales of the software. According to a copy of the complaint seen by Ars Technica, Autodesk began sending copyright infringement notices to eBay in May of 2005. He says that Autodesk never took the appropriate legal action to...

Resale of Meals, Ready to Eat questioned after eBay trading spottedBy Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Saturday, February 18, 2006 WASHINGTON — Meals, Ready to Eat, the prepackaged rations infamous among servicemembers, remain hot collectibles on the online trading site eBay.com, despite defense officials’ efforts to stop the practice. MREs typically cost about $4.50 to produce, and are intended solely for use and distribution by members of the military, according to Defense Department rules. But the water-activated rations are being marketed on the site as both survival gear and collector’s item, with some cases of 12 going...