The Supreme Court rules that we have the right to resell Copyrighted Work
My Fellow g1s! I give you news that deserves celebration! Thanks to a Copyright Case the Supreme Court recently took on whether or not the people have the right to resell Copyrighted Work without the Copyrighted Holder's Permission they have reached a verdict on a case on a Thailand Student and publisher John Wiley & Sons. For those that don't know, student Supap Kirtsaeng had used eBay to sell Text Books by this particular pubishler without permission. The Justices ruled 6-3 in favor of the student and the First-Sale Doctrine, if we entered a scenario if the Justices ruled in favor of the Publisher removing the First-Sale Doctrine from exsistance then Libraries, Museums stores like GameStop would probably cease to exsist and companies like the RIAA and the MPAA would hold us in a firm grip of doing what ever they so please.
So g1s what are your thoughts on our huge victory?
Source 1 http://news.yahoo.com/court-sides-student-case-over-textbooks-142006545....
» Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/scotus-first-sale-decision/
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g1 DISCUSSIONS
BigBossofMoss
So which Justices dissented?
ekolis
So does this mean a class action lawsuit against Valve until they let us sell our Steam games?
Kaibaman41
That's the only thing that would be hard to do right now to sell virtual games we've bought on such platforms
ekolis
The only hard part would be setting up the infrastructure for players to trade games. The actual transfer would be trivial - deactivate my access, activate yours, and transfer funds between the accounts.
LightningandIce
Sweet. I'm glad to see them sticking up for our rights as consumers.