Supreme Court To Consider First Sale of Imports 259
Animaether passes along a legal tale that "doesn't involve the kind of cutting-edge issues that copyright lawyers usually grapple with in the digital age [and] sounds like the kind of lawsuit that should have been resolved 200 years ago," yet still "is very much a product of the Internet-driven global economy." "Can copyright owners assert rights over imported goods that have already been sold once? That is the issue before the Supreme Court in Costco Wholesale Corp v. Omega, S.A. (backstory here). What's at stake is the ability of resellers to offer legitimate, non-pirated versions of copyrighted goods, manufactured in foreign nations, to US consumers at prices that undercut those charged by the copyright holders."
Who cares (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How does copyright come into play here? (Score:4, Funny)
This is just epic fail for Omega. They should have learned from the much more savvy software publishing industry: don't sell your watches; license them.
This is a copyright case!?! (Score:4, Funny)
At what point was the watch disassembled at a molecular level and then reproduced in bulk by a nano-lathe?
Re:Sorry, but copyright does control imports (Score:3, Funny)
At last, a car analogy! It all makes sense now!