No more garage sales, estate sales, 2nd-hand stores, eBay, Craigslist??

Selling your own books, electronics and even furniture will soon be illegal if the Supreme Court says so

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by: J. D. Heyes

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037490_Supreme_Court_intellectual_property_second_hand.html#ixzz28wdrRpgJ

 

 

"...a federal court has already ruled in favor of these corporate copyright holders; if the Supreme Court upholds that ruling, it means the copyright holders of anything you own that's been manufactured in any other country - China, Japan, or a European country - would have to grant you permission if you ever wanted to sell it...

 

"The case stems from the college experience of Supap Kirtsaeng, a native of Thailand who came to the U.S. in 1997 to study at Cornell University. He discovered that his textbooks, which were produced by Wiley, were much cheaper to buy in his own country, so he encouraged his relatives there to buy the cheaper books and ship them to the U.S. Eventually he sold them on eBay and made some $1.2 million.

"Wiley, which admitted that it charged less for books sold abroad than it did in the United States, sued him for copyright infringement," said MarketWatch. "Kirtsaeng countered with the first-sale doctrine."