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Offline Linda

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Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« on: October 08, 2012, 10:17:41 AM »
Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04

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Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.

At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.

There go all the week end yard sells.....
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Re: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2012, 10:23:55 AM »
Quote from: Linda on October 08, 2012, 10:17:41 AM
Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04

There go all the week end yard sells.....

Come arrest me.  I dare you.
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Re: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2012, 10:45:20 AM »
Hey, it could happen....
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Re: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2012, 10:53:33 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on October 08, 2012, 10:23:55 AM
Come arrest me.  I dare you.

I'll be with you in that huge crowd of people.
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Re: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2012, 06:13:38 AM »
"Here take this nice chair. It's a gift from me to you."
"Here take this twenty dollar bill. It's a gift from me to you."
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Re: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2012, 12:47:56 PM »
There's some law on the books, that was championed by that ugly Henry Waxman.  You couldn't sell used children's clothes/toys without them going through costly laboratory testing.  Anybody talk about that anymore?  There's garage sales here all the time, with the usual out-grown kids clothes and toys.  Did the whole country simply ignore the idiocy and carry on as usual?  If so, I applaud the lot of them. 

Another one was recycling.  NY went all gung-ho for it, with very oppressive enforcement actions/procedures.  Well, there wasn't a market or downline facilities for all the recyclables, and the stuff was ending up in the same landfill as the regular trash.  Local authorities have just  :whistling: and looked the other way.  (After the torches and pitchforks episode).

I guess my point is, whatever the outcome of the court case; can they really rein in the entire population used to swapping their junk with each other, since time immemorial? 
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