Supreme Court allows reselling of copyrighted materials.

[cubby1223]

This isn't really a copyright issue, more of an import tariff/tax issue.

Controlling tariffs and taxes is not something a business can do, they're trying to work it into what existing law they can, and copyright, while not ideal, is the closest.

 

[Imported]

wait.. is this a reverse on the ruling against Costco for grey market merchandise?

costco was selling some expensive merchandise from a famous company i dont remember at a deep discount.

they were buying the product overseas from a distributor and shipping it to the US.

Think it was Costco and Omega.

 

[BladeVenom]

Good.

 

[sdifox]

wait.. is this a reverse on the ruling against Costco for grey market merchandise?

costco was selling some expensive merchandise from a famous company i dont remember at a deep discount.

they were buying the product overseas from a distributor and shipping it to the US.

This is only applicable to books I think. Or at least copyright related items.

 

[Newbian]

This might answer your question,

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/03/crikey-eu-rules-you-can-resell-downloaded-games/



Now we just need to get a judgement in the US.

As for the OP, this is good news.

Just because you are allowed to resell them doesn't force the company from making it a available option.

How would you do that with a game you downloaded with steam for instance if the cd key is registered to your steam account short of giving the person the steam account info as I don't believe you can gift it then.

 

[Meghan54]

costco was selling some expensive merchandise from a famous company i dont remember at a deep discount.

they were buying the product overseas from a distributor and shipping it to the US.

Costco has done this repeatedly over the years. One instance was Costco buying Cannondale bicycles destined for overseas and returning them to the U.S. and selling them in their stores. This was around 2000 or so.

 

[Farang]

hmmm.. I'm in Thailand now. Who needs textbooks?

 

[Newbian]

hmmm.. I'm in Thailand now. Who needs textbooks?

Screw the books... send some hookers over.

 

[drinkmorejava]

The court ruling makes sense. This should never have been about copyright. The question should have been if he could purchase that many copies of the books in a non-fraudulent manner. Generally they restrict the sale to one per student, so did their distributors provide them against the distribution agreement or what?

 

[KaOTiK]

Just because you are allowed to resell them doesn't force the company from making it a available option.

How would you do that with a game you downloaded with steam for instance if the cd key is registered to your steam account short of giving the person the steam account info as I don't believe you can gift it then.

Actually because of the EU thing, it is the reason the Steam marketplace has come along in beta now and they are testing it, first it was in game items and now you can buy a game (Dota 2 even if it will be F2P it is in closed beta atm and can't be gotten in without "owning" it). The marketplace might have been coming along for in game items before, but now it is going to be the place you can sell your games, at least for people in EU.

 

[Newbian]

Actually because of the EU thing, it is the reason the Steam marketplace has come along in beta now and they are testing it, first it was in game items and now you can buy a game (Dota 2 even if it will be F2P it is in closed beta atm and can't be gotten in without "owning" it). The marketplace might have been coming along for in game items before, but now it is going to be the place you can sell your games, at least for people in EU.

Interesting.

I haven't done much in the way of steam for a long time so I never saw that.

 

[Wreckem]

This is only applicable to books I think. Or at least copyright related items.

Software has copyrights. The fear here was since almost electronics have copyrighted software, reselling any made overseas regardless of intended market or importing and selling said items would be illegal.

Also, certain physical goods have copyrighted designs and unathorized selling/reselling of legit goods could have been made illegal if SCotUS went the other way.