Re:How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling ju...
by belorn on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:46AM
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Where to begin... No, they are not raising the price in Philippines to $100 and loose the whole Philippine market. That bad economics 101, and bad business. What publishers will do is to have a select few articles with low price to be targeted for the Philippines market, and then use product differentials to push for higher cost products in the US. If you want to see a clear example of this, look at the car market.
The DVD collection from Amazon might be safe, might be unsafe. If your purchase produce tax revenue for somewhere in the USA, sure, it should be safe. Given how evasive some companies has been in regard to purchase location and taxes, it might be fully possible that those films was actually bought from a location at a tax heaven.
But more importantly, products bought in ebay is NOT located in the US. Any such product is likely to be unlawful. If the product include any form of software, art, or design, then that is copyrighted and you need to get permission from the copyright owner to import it to the US.
Last, cars. Cars and trucks are commonly sold on the international market, often through resellers. They might be produce, programmed, and created in Japan, Germany, Sweden, and then bought and directly imported to the US. Now, that importation will require additional permission. Say, you bought 1000 trucks from a reseller in Sweden and imported those to the US. Now all those are illegal. Imagine being a shipping company and suddenly realizing that all your purchased trucks are now illegal. Imagine the cost that can have.
This is why this is not about buying 1,000 textbooks at the Philippines price and then sell them in the US at the US price. It is the sudden realization that buying and importing goods can now come back and bite.
The DVD collection from Amazon might be safe, might be unsafe. If your purchase produce tax revenue for somewhere in the USA, sure, it should be safe. Given how evasive some companies has been in regard to purchase location and taxes, it might be fully possible that those films was actually bought from a location at a tax heaven.
But more importantly, products bought in ebay is NOT located in the US. Any such product is likely to be unlawful. If the product include any form of software, art, or design, then that is copyrighted and you need to get permission from the copyright owner to import it to the US.
Last, cars. Cars and trucks are commonly sold on the international market, often through resellers. They might be produce, programmed, and created in Japan, Germany, Sweden, and then bought and directly imported to the US. Now, that importation will require additional permission. Say, you bought 1000 trucks from a reseller in Sweden and imported those to the US. Now all those are illegal. Imagine being a shipping company and suddenly realizing that all your purchased trucks are now illegal. Imagine the cost that can have.
This is why this is not about buying 1,000 textbooks at the Philippines price and then sell them in the US at the US price. It is the sudden realization that buying and importing goods can now come back and bite.