How an EBay Bookseller Defeated a Publishing Giant at the Supreme Court

Re:How an EBay Bookseller Defeated a Publishing Giant at the... by throwawaykf05 on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @09:19AM (#8662363)

> If the ruling had gone the other way, a lot of manufacturing would have moved out of the USA as the manufacturers would have had a lot more control over resale.

This is a gross overstatement. Most manufacturing does not involve copyright and so this ruling would have no bearing on that at all. The simplest way I can put this from my non-lawyer understanding is, "copyright law does not trump first sale doctrine".

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Re:How an EBay Bookseller Defeated a Publishing Giant at the... by LordKano on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @10:19AM (#8662658)

I'm sorry but this ruling is one of the things that establishes that.

Had this ruling gone the other way, copyright would trump first sale doctrine.

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Re:How an EBay Bookseller Defeated a Publishing Giant at the... by throwawaykf05 on Saturday November 29, 2014 @03:17PM (#8674922)

Yes, I meant to say "The simplest way I can put this ruling from my non-lawyer understanding is..."

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Re:How an EBay Bookseller Defeated a Publishing Giant at the... by michaelt on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:20PM (#8663369)

  Most manufacturing does not involve copyright

Microchip layouts and printed circuit board designs are usually copyrighted. And you could easily mould some copyrightable text onto a pair of headphones or a sandwich box if you wanted to.

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