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thinbluemime2
2014-11-27 04:53:36 UTC
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How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Court
Doug Kari Nov 25 2014
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-an-ebay-bookseller-defeat=
ed-a-publishing-giant-at-the-supreme-court/




Sometimes all it takes to alter the course of history is one pissed-off =
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person. Supap Kirtsaeng wasn=E2=80=99t a crusader or lone nut; he was ju=
st an eBay =

trader who got backed into a legal corner and refused to give up.

To help pay for grad school at USC, he sold textbooks online=E2=80=94leg=
itimate =

copies that he=E2=80=99d purchased overseas. But academic publishing beh=
emoth John =

Wiley & Sons sued Supap, claiming that his trade in Wiley=E2=80=99s fore=
ign-market =

textbooks constituted copyright infringement.

The implications were enormous. If publishers had the right to control =

resale of books that they printed and sold overseas, then it stood to =

reason that manufacturers could restrain trade in countless =

products=E2=80=94especially tech goods, most of which are made in Asia a=
nd contain =

copyrightable elements such as embedded software.

Intent on setting a precedent, Wiley slammed Supap with a $600,000 jury =
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verdict and all but buried him on appeal. But the grad student hung toug=
h, =

arguing that as lawful owner of the books he had the right to resell the=
m. =

Eventually he convinced the US Supreme Court to grant review.

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Adam H. Kerman
2014-11-27 05:13:13 UTC
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Post by thinbluemime2
How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Court
Doug Kari Nov 25 2014
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-an-ebay-bookseller-defeated-a-publishing-giant-at-the-supreme-court/
That was well written, and I was able to follow the legal arguments.
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