Supreme Court Copyright Ruling

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This is an interesting case because a different ruling could have at a minimum made it illegal to buy or sell used books, videos and CDs across international borders and some feared could in a worst case ruling ban reselling anything protected by copyright or trademark even at garage sales. It looks like the supreme court ruling says we'll still be able to buy those used but legitimate rare out of print CDs from European dealers and college text books from Thailand and our garage sales are safe for now. It kind of reminds me of the music industry effort to ban selling used CDs back in the 90s. In this case a student was buying legally printed and sold text books cheap in Thailand and importing them to the US for for resale at a discount to US prices and the court ruled that he may continue, that once a product is legally sold the copyright holder has no control over it's resale.

Supreme Court upholds first-sale doctrine in textbook resale case | Ars Technica

Today's decision vindicates the "first sale" doctrine, which allows the owner of a particular copy of a work to do whatever she wants with it after purchasing it. It overrides first sale losses in both the 9th and 2nd Circuits and makes clear that digital commerce can flourish in the Internet era, even when it crosses borders.

 

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^^^^that would be a great way to clean a record, not unlike the wood glue method.