I saw this today as well.
The case is really about copyrights....not if someone can re sell a 1982 alarm clock(made in china) at a yard sale.
The big guys don't like getting outsmarted by the little guys....LOLOL.
Remember an appellate court ruled in FAVOR for the case. This will appear before the supreme court...its on their docket. Its scary when stuff like this actually makes it to our supreme court.
The point is the big boys want you to pay them a fee if your a big enough retailer...add up ebay and youtube revenues over there product base...thats what this is about....if you have an ebay store and sell used stuff...ebay has to charge you a copyright "fee" which they then split with the copyright holders.
kewwwlllll ha...yea....the world is scary my friends.
from:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04"The case stems from Supap Kirtsaeng’s college experience. A native of Thailand, Kirtsaeng came to America in 1997 to study at Cornell University. When he discovered that his textbooks, produced by Wiley, were substantially cheaper to buy in Thailand than they were in Ithaca, N.Y., he rallied his Thai relatives to buy the books and ship them to him in the United States.
He then sold them on eBay, making upward of $1.2 million, according to court documents.
Wiley, which admitted that it charged less for books sold abroad than it did in the United States, sued him for copyright infringement. Kirtsaeng countered with the first-sale doctrine."
