Supreme Court Rules That Copyright Law Does Not Protect Publishers Online and in Discount Stores
Good news for the folks at Ebay
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that textbooks and other goods made and sold abroad can be re-sold online and in discount stores without violating U.S. copyright law. The outcome was a huge relief to eBay, Costco and other businesses that trade in products made outside the U.S.
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This is a good thing for the publishers of all of those text books I was forced to buy in college, and then couldn't unload at the end of the course because they just published a new edition.
Now I don't have to figure out how much they would owe me in ~storage fees~ for their obsolete paper.
Oh, by the way, fuck Garth Brooks! I wanna see if he has the balls to tell me to my face that I can't sell my used CDs.
Your fault for owning Garth Brooks CDs. Geez.