[ajross]

Would you apply that logic to any reseller? The corner market shouldn't be able to tally how many apples it sold? That just doesn't seem like a consistent legal principle to me. Clearly if you allow someone to sell your product you are implicitly allowing them to record the fact that they did.

There may be an antitrust argument here, but this data ownership thing seems like a non starter.

[zyx321]

Unless it says "Sold by: Amazon.com", Amazon isn't party to the contract. DHL doesn't get to know what is in the package they deliver, so why should Amazon be entitled to that information?

[ajross]

You have a cite supporting that legal theory? Because the fact that it happened on their website using indexing in their database and (especially) that they took payment directly, seems like a pretty strong argument that they ARE a party to the contract.

[mgfist]

Amazon isn't buying the goods though. The store selling the good isn't just selling it to Amazon, so it's not reselling.