What’s news today?
How about this?
From MarketWatch
“Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.
At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.”
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Or maybe this. Now maybe we can get to the bottom of this failure of policy.
From CBSNews
” CBS News has learned that congressional investigators have issued a subpoena to a former top security official at the US mission in Libya. The official is Lt. Col. Andy Wood, a Utah National Guard Army Green Beret who headed up a Special Forces “Site Security Team” in Libya.
The subpoena compels Lt. Col. Wood to appear at a House Oversight Committee hearing next week that will examine security decisions leading up to the Sept. 11 Muslim extremist terror assault on the U.S. compound at Benghazi. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his colleagues were killed in the attack.
Lt. Col. Wood has told CBS News and congressional investigators that his 16-member team and a six-member State Department elite force called a Mobile Security Deployment team left Libya in August, just one month before the Benghazi assault. Wood says that’s despite the fact that US officials in Libya wanted security increased, not decreased.”
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Just because Kirtsaeng was more wiley than Wiley should not create an absurd law and it is hoped the Supreme Court will recognize that. Not sure where the brains of the lower court was when they had this issure before them. Wiley should have recognized a good bookseller in Kirtsaeng and hired him.
If this became law you wouldn’t fully have ownership of somethig manufactured overseas. That would give consumers pause when buying I would think.
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Right now most resold articles are tracked and claimed as income, thus taxes are paid on them. If this ruling made resale difficult or impossible a good number these sales would boost the black market trade and no income would be declared on any of it.
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I’m not usually a fan of Saturday Night Live, but I’m posting this one.
http://www.hulu.com/#!watch/409935
Slight content warning. Mild cussing.
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