{"id":32822,"date":"2013-03-19T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/19\/right-of-first-sale-upheld.html"},"modified":"2013-03-19T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:30:58","slug":"right-of-first-sale-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/19\/right-of-first-sale-upheld.html","title":{"rendered":"Right of First Sale Upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"
For (physical) books, at least, once you've sold it, your control of the physical item is pretty much gone. \u00a0A rare victory against Big Media at the High Court.<\/p>\n

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Yay! The SCOTUS got this one right!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Supreme Court to Wiley publishers: your insane theory of copyright is wrong<\/a>
\n The US Supreme Court has handed down a verdict in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, one of the most important copyright cases of the century. In it, the publisher John Wiley & Sons sought to block the import of legally purchased cheap overseas editions of its books by arguing that “first sale” (the right to resell copyrighted works) only applies to goods made in the USA. However you feel about cheap overseas editions and their importation into the …\n <\/p>\n

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For (physical) books, at least, once you've sold it, your control of the physical item is pretty much gone. \u00a0A rare victory against Big Media at the High Court. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Yay! The SCOTUS got this one right! 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