Storage Auctions
The Storage Locker => The Lounge => Topic started by: alloro on April 01, 2013, 04:58:17 PM
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cnn(dot)com/2013/03/19/us/supreme-court-copyright-dispute/index.html?iref=allsearch
Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court threw its legal weight Tuesday behind a Thai student whose side business selling foreign-made textbooks got him in trouble with the publisher.
The justices ruled 6-3 that copyrighted works made and purchased abroad can then be resold within the United States without the copyright owner's permission.
The ruling is a victory for those who buy and sell books, movies, music, and artwork, and perhaps even furniture, electronics, automobiles, and clothing -- anything that may be considered "intellectual property."
Storefront and at-home secondary retailers, libraries, artistic venues -- even the local garage sale -- would also be affected.
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I'd like to read the opinions from the three judges that voted the other way.....
This seemed a pretty open-n-shut case that the kid did no wrong IMO.