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From Action Tapes v Kelly Mattson, 462 F.3d. 1010 (8th. Cir. 2006) A century ago, the Supreme Court held that a copyright owner's exclusive right to distribute a copyrighted product does not include the power to control a purchaser's subsequent disposition of the purchased copy. See Quality King Distribs., Inc. v. L'anza Research Int'l, Inc., 523 U.S. 135, 140-42 (1998), citing Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908). This "first sale" principle is now codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109(a), and Congress has resisted efforts to alter the balance of competing interests it reflects. However, in enacting the Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990, Congress decided that short-term rentals of copyrighted computer software were depriving copyright owners of an appropriate return on their creative investments. See H.R. Rep. No. 735, 101st. Cong., 2d Sess. 7, reprinted in 1990 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6935, 6939 (1990). The response was a limited statutory exception to the first sale principle that prohibits a person in possession of "a particular copy of a computer program" from disposing of that copy for commercial gain by "rental, lease, or lending," unless authorized to do so by "the owner of copyright in [the] computer program." 17 U.S.C. § 109(b)(1)(A). In this case, we explore the boundaries of this additional protection granted only to owners of copyrights in computer programs.