Copyright doctrine and buy low, sell high.....

[dereksbicycles]

MPAA & RIAA: If People Can Sell Foreign Purchased Content Without Paying Us Again, US Economy May Collapse | Techdirt

This is ridiculous on many ends!!!!!

Let's say I sold my bike for $100. That person turns around and sells bike for $250. Can I sue him/her?

Maybe someone moved from Germany to USA. They import their Audi car with them. Now that Audi wasn't made in USA, they cannot sell it in USA.

Chicago Bears jerseys are made outside USA. So if retailers go out of business because they cannot sell football jerseys they imported from Malaysia, tough luck.

So I cannot be mad if someone buy a $100 bike off me and turn around to sell it for $250. It's my own fault. Next time, I'll ask for $250.

A lot of people are whiners because they cry that someone else sells it for more them them. Go figure!!!

 

[DeafBadger]

This is not directly about intellectual property, but it's interesting how the argument about foreign-purchased goods might threaten the US economy if resold in the States.

A recurring economic "problem" that is discussed in economic classes goes something like this...

Let's say that you're building a house on the beach. You require wood to build it. If you buy it from Home Depot, it will cost you X amount of dollars.

While you're saving your money, you sleep that night on your beachfront land in a tent. The next morning, you wake up and discover that lumber has washed ashore, from who knows where. It just so happens to be enough to build your house.

Question: Will using this new-found and apparently "free" lumber destroy the economy, or are you well within your rights to use it to build your house? What does that mean for the economy, and what does that mean for the money you have saved? What further things could happen, because you saved money?


It's not really quite the same as IP, but these companies *are* getting paid for their IP, just in a different country. They want the American mark-up, obviously, for goods sold in the States.

 

[dereksbicycles]

Hard to say, but now students will know to get text books oversea and not right on campus. I don't know if Wiley was suing for copyright, but to stop sales. You know, make news!!! Cut off other guys' profit. Now everyone knows where he got text books. So now they will get text books the same way.

 

[Reba]

Hard to say, but now students will know to get text books oversea and not right on campus. I don't know if Wiley was suing for copyright, but to stop sales. You know, make news!!! Cut off other guys' profit. Now everyone knows where he got text books. So now they will get text books the same way.

I just checked, and four of my text books are printed in the USA, custom editions for my college, so they aren't available for purchase from overseas. The other one was printed in Canada. On average, they cost about $100 each.