I thought some of you would be interested in this.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Deborah Caldwell-Stone</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstone@ala.org">dstone@ala.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM<br>Subject: [ifrt-members] FW: Supreme Court rules against publisher on copyright protections / Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Libraries, Consumer Rights<br>To: <a href="mailto:ala-ifc@ala.org">ala-ifc@ala.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ifrt-members@ala.org">ifrt-members@ala.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ftrf-l@ala.org">ftrf-l@ala.org</a><br>
Cc: Bradley Compton <<a href="mailto:bcalaoif@gmail.com">bcalaoif@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Reuters<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Supreme Court on Tuesday said U.S. copyright holders cannot block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, a major case affecting the annual importation of tens of billions of dollars of gray market goods.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By a 6-3 vote, the country's highest court said the "first sale doctrine" applies to copies of a copyrighted work lawfully made abroad.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/us-usa-court-copyright-idUSBRE92I0MV20130319" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/us-usa-court-copyright-idUSBRE92I0MV20130319</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Libraries, Consumer Rights<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">District Dispatch<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/today-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-libraries-consumer-rights/" target="_blank">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/today-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-libraries-consumer-rights/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Supreme Court’s opinion: <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-697_d1o2.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-697_d1o2.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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