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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 04:52 PM EDT |
ISTM He's importing for commerce, just in time importing one book at a time
doesn't change that.
Unless he's claiming he owned every single one of those books, used and consumed
them and sold them as used.
That doesn't sound like what he did, it sounds like he just arbitraged the
exchange/trans-national market rate.
In which case has he paid his import duty?
If he hasn't it raise the question is it a legitimate copy?
If it's not, then does US copyright apply to a product manufactured outside the
US?
IANAL and I'm just speculating[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 06:00 PM EDT |
This is more than just first sale. This is another last gasp by the
big publishing industry to maintain the nineteenth century fiction that
even if the world is round, the time and money it costs to ship books
makes them very preciou$ items in their final market. Thus the publishers
cartel divvied the globe into geographic segments with rules about who
could sell what, where and when. This is why they carefully print the
date and -place- of publication and establish offices everywhere in
order to apply the appropriate local copyright law. Note that this
contraption still exists in DVD Regions. Apropos the recent discussion
here on e-books: watch out for Regional lockouts to appear...
IANAL, just a frustrated book purchaser/reader of many years in a
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| Authored by: Bernard on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 09:05 PM EDT |
Try buying books here in Australia...
Paperback novels often have an SRP of $18-$25.
Hardcover novels often have an SRP > $50.
There was a particular (non-fiction) book I was looking at -
published in Australia, printed in Singapore. Bookstore
price in Australia? $68. More if you want it delivered.
Air-mailed halfway around the world from a bookseller in the
UK? $35.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: darrellb on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 07:11 AM EDT |
The publisher claims that the international book sale does not toll the first
sale clock in the US.
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