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Title: Victory for College Students
Post by: Mulligan on March 20, 2013, 05:13:46 PM

Oscar's latest blog entry makes for very interesting reading at

http://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2013/03/supreme-court-upholds-first-sale-rights-of-foreign-bookseller/

I was happy to read about the decision in Oscar's blog post because the big textbook publishing houses for once got the short end of the stick... at least until their lobbyists (as Oscar points out) influence Congress to pass a law that'll once again protect their huge, unconscionable profits on educational textbooks.

Anyway, Oscar's observations about the Supreme Court decision are well worth reading. I especially enjoyed the little digs at Scalia and Thomas.

Title: Re: Victory for College Students
Post by: lucia on March 21, 2013, 04:08:23 PM

I started my own thread before reading this. I read it here:


http://www.volokh.com/2013/03/21/the-supreme-courts-small-but-helpful-step-towards-copyright-sanity/

In discussing this, David Post writes:

though I suspect that 33 pages construing 5 words in the Copyright Act will only appeal to hardened copyright aficianodos or the hopelessly insane).

I'm toying with the idea of reading the 33 pages.

Title: Re: Victory for College Students
Post by: lucia on March 21, 2013, 04:10:57 PM

By the way: Quoteable "Is the Court having once written dicta calling a tomato a vegetable bound to deny that it is a fruit forever after?"

Title: Re: Victory for College Students
Post by: Oscar Michelen on March 23, 2013, 12:43:26 PM

Lucia - it shows the world of litigation and lawyering. 33 pages (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) over the meaning of the five words "lawfully created under the Act" with many focusing on the  word "under"