eBay had made available and then taken away, support for
digital items. This feature has been reintroduced.
If you arent familiar with the term, a digital item is a
product sold in the form of a computer file that a buyer can access online or
have delivered electronically via email. For example, the product could be an
MP3 file of an original song that you wrote and recorded, or an original fitness
video that you made. Its important to note that these are both examples of
items you created yourself. Strict copyright laws prohibit selling digital items
for content that you didnt create yourself or for which you are not a copyright
owner.
You can view the information page with full details
here:
What type of digital items can I
sell?
Provided that the item complies with the above policy, all types of digital items can be sold, from songs to recipes to images to written documents. To sell a digital item, the seller must be the owner of the underlying intellectual property or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner.
Examples of items that sellers are not permitted to list on eBay:
Provided that the item complies with the above policy, all types of digital items can be sold, from songs to recipes to images to written documents. To sell a digital item, the seller must be the owner of the underlying intellectual property or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner.
Examples of items that sellers are not permitted to list on eBay:
- An MP3 file copied from a purchased CD or a concert the seller attended
- An eBook for which the seller is not the copyright owner or an authorized reseller
- A song purchased through iTunes
- A movie copied from a purchased DVD
- A video game that you copied from the original CDROM
- A PDF file of a product's manual for which the seller is not the copyright owner or an authorized reseller
Examples of items that sellers are permitted to list on eBay:
- An MP3 file of a song a seller wrote and recorded (and owns all rights to)
- An eBook of recipes created by the seller
- A home-made movie, in which the seller owns all rights
- Computer software created by the seller, in which the seller owns all rights
- Software listed by an authorized software reseller who has online distribution rights
- A digital picture of the Golden Gate bridge taken by the seller
Additionally, the item may not include software that harms the buyer's
machine (e.g., a virus), uses the buyer's machine for malicious or unauthorized
purposes (e.g., sending spam emails or spreading a virus), or violates the
buyer's privacy (e.g., spyware, cookies). Finally, the item may not be
pornographic in nature.