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A Supreme Court copyright case has libraries fighting for the right to lend

7/11/2012

Libraries? ability to lend books could be severely impaired if the U.S. Supreme Court doesn?t squelch a new interpretation of copyright law in next term?s Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, according to an amicus brief filed last week by groups that represent more than 100,000 U.S. libraries.

The?Kirtsaeng case, as?we?ve reported, asks the court to decide whether the first-sale doctrine applies to works manufactured abroad or only to those made in the United States. The doctrine is usually interpreted to mean that owners of a lawfully produced work may resell it without the authority of the original copyright owner. But in its Kirtsaeng ruling in August 2011, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that Supap Kirtsaeng, a University of Southern California graduate student and highly successful eBay seller, was not protected by the doctrine when he used the auction site to sell John Wiley books manufactured in Asia to U.S. buyers. Kirtsaeng?s lawyer,?Joshua Rosenkranz of?Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, told us?.?

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Source: http://www.pmflegal.com/blog/index.php/2012/07/12/a-supreme-court-copyright-case-has-libraries-fighting-for-the-right-to-lend/

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