Te distribution right includes not only the saleor distribution of the original or copies of works butalso the distribution of works in diferent ways. As aresult of the use of this right, the inability to preventworks from re-distribution afer the frst sale of thework or the distribution by alienating the originalwork or its copies is generally considered as the principleof exhaustion. However, it is debatable whetherthe exhaustion principle also precisely applies to copiesof the work published on the Internet. Dominantopinion regards this issue within the transmission topublic.Having dealt with this issue in its decision, theECJ agrees with the minority opinion over the factthat the principle of exhaustion applies to the programsdownloaded from the Internet. Although thecomputer programme has been obtained by beingdownloaded directly from the Internet, the principleof exhaustion will still be valid provided the right touse is continuously and certainly granted over the programme. In this decision, in order for the exhaustion principleto apply, two restrictions have been accepted:First is that the alienator destroys his own programmeor make it unusable, the other one is that collectivelicencing has to be alienated collectively.Regarding the computer programmes, it seemsappropriate that the principle of exhaustion appliesto the distributions over the Internet. Te frst restrictionthe ECJ has accepted is in principle correct andconsistent in itself. Te other restriction the ECJ hasadopted for the application of the principle of exhaustionis appropriate only if interpreted in relation tothe features of the programme in a present case. Or itwould be unnecessary restriction.Te decision of the ECJ has already sparked adebate whether the principle of exhaustion could applyto the other digital products, versions of which aremade over the Internet. However, the decision is aboutthe computer programmes without regarding this issuedirectly.Te principles of the decision, in my opinion,may also be exactly accepted in Turkish law. In thisway, the situations enabling the work to be continuously,fully and legally downloaded from the Internetcan be considered within the right of distribution.Moreover, the situations as making a work availableon the Internet in such a way to be accessed at thedetermined place and time by the users can be consideredwithin the transmission to public.