COPYRIGHT AS COMMODITY
"LAWFULLY MADE UNDER THIS TITLE" & KIRTSAENG V. WILEY
If Wiley had won...
- More companies manufacture overseas
- Job loss
- Deficiency in tax revenues
- Your rights as a consumer would be suppressed
- Billions of dollars of revenue would be lost to companies like Netflix, eBay, etc.
- Libraries would have to cease lending foreign manufactured books
- Unforeseen consequences
© Jarek Tuszynski / Wikimedia Commons
LIBRARIES ARE SAVED! FOR NOW...
YOUR RIGHT TO FIRST SALE
National Archives and Records
Administration
- Yard sales
- Netflix
- eBay
- Goodwill
- Used car dealerships
- Used book stores
- Lending libraries
First Sale Decided: The Road to the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley Decision and What It Means for Libraries
Jennifer A. Ferretti
Pratt Institute SILSSA Showcase, Spring 2013