THE BAIS HAVAAD HALACHA JOURNAL: Volume 5776 Issue XXXV Bamidbar LABEL LIABILITY Buying, selling and breaching manufacturing rights By: Rabbi Shlomo Cohen, Dayan at Ahavas Shalom, Yerushalayim, Author of Pure Money
We usually think of buying and selling in regard to tangible items, such as cookies, pens, socks, and cars. Nowadays, though, there is an entire marketplace for intangible items, as well; people buy and sell royalties for a certain product or song, the rights to a specific brand name, the rights to sell an item in a particular region, and even airspace.
As with everything else in the business world, these types of sales bring to the fore many Halachic questions and cases in Bais Din. The following is but one example.
We usually think of buying and selling in regard to tangible items, such as cookies, pens, socks, and cars. Nowadays, though, there is an entire marketplace for intangible items, as well; people buy and sell royalties for a certain product or song, the rights to a specific brand name, the rights to sell an item in a particular region, and even airspace.
As with everything else in the business world, these types of sales bring to the fore many Halachic questions and cases in Bais Din. The following is but one example.
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