December 5, 2012
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Could Selling A Used Book Become Illegal?
An amicus brief filed with the court by four booksellers, Powell’s Books, Strand Book Store, Half Price Books, and Harvard Book Store, points out, “the interpretation Wiley advances would have made pirates even out of our Founding Fathers. In the 1730s and 40s, Benjamin Franklin operated a book store on Main Street in Philadelphia stocked primarily with books imported from British dealers. If Franklin opened his bookstore today, on Wiley’s view, virtually every sale he made would be an infringement of copyright, since each such sale would constitute distribution of books manufactured abroad.”
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This is ridiculous. Major publishers auch as Wiley are so greedy. I can’t see this passing. If it does, I will be upset...
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