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With that reasoning, one could say the situation is appropriate | 227 comments | Create New Account
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With that reasoning, one could say the situation is appropriate
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT

The concept you state is embodied in:

restricting a sale would apply to a business relationship
And
a buyer should not inherently have rights to sell with paid-in-clear licenses and physical objects
As I understand the concept's you're outlining, they gets simplified as:
    Is it for some type of income, the item being sold in bulk
or
    Is it a personal copy, of very few, by an individual
I believe the situation the Court will examine is:
    A student planned to generate some extra income by purchasing the books in a lower cost market and then selling them to fellow students in a higher cost market for a profit.
Which can reasonably be argued as fitting your first identifer "a business" rather than the second identifier "a personal sale".

After all... didn't Michael Dell start out that way? Doing something while in school to generate an extra income and watching his business grow from there?

Where do I stand on it? I really can't say. Should such a Law apply in such a situation? I simply don't know. I'm lacking a lot of information that would play a role in such a decision including answers to questions like (but not limited to):

    Were the books made in the same location so manufacturing costs are identical?
    Based on the price of the books in the separate markets: do the "living costs" of the different markets reflect the difference in price?

RAS

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