Your Right to Resell Your Stuff is in Jeopardy!!

[LadyEagle]

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — 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.

Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized since 1908, you can resell your stuff without worry because the copyright holder only had control over the first sale.

BUT.....

Rest here: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-10-12/finance/34240922_1_copyright-iphone-consumer-groups


This could be the end of Ebay, Craig's List, Used Car Dealers, Flea Markets, Yard Sales, and a whole lot more!!!

And don't think we have a "Conservative Court" because that flew out the window with the turncoat Chief Justice on obamacare.

 

[Arbo]

I saw this a week or so ago. I think this could give birth to a new black market if the USSC rules (what I think would be) badly. Not to mention the damage to the economy in a general sense.

 

[LadyEagle]

We will all become criminals, won't we? Perhaps that is the goal.

 

[Arbo]

We will all become criminals, won't we? Perhaps that is the goal.

Given the number and wide range of laws on the books, I bet most of us are already whether we know it or not.:saint:

 

[Salty]

any ideal when the court will rule on this?

also, did you know that if you have pictures by a professional photogrpher - your local drug store will not make copies due to copyright