Author Topic: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril  (Read 292 times)

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Offline Ptarmigan

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Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« on: October 07, 2012, 10:27:37 PM »
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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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
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Re: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2012, 10:37:21 PM »
But only stuff made in foreign countries or made with parts from foreign countries.  Ooops, that is almost everything that is sold in the US.