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It was even more fundamental than that. A foreign manufactured product could have the 'right to re-sale' by the owner effectively revoked. If the ruling had gon
by awjr 12y ago
It was even more fundamental than that. A foreign manufactured product could have the 'right to re-sale' by the owner effectively revoked. If the ruling had gone the other way, a lot of manufacturing would have moved out of the USA as the manufacturers would have had a lot more control over resale.
In summary, as long as it was manufactured legally anywhere in the world then you can damn well do with it what you like after you have bought it :)
What is more interesting is his comment on the “You Own Devices Act” (YODA). In the Internet of Things age, you may own the physical device but the licence to the software running on the device could be argued, is not transferrable. YODA enforces first sale rights to such devices making the software 'licence' transferable as part of the sale.
- throwawaykf05 12y ago> If the ruling had gone the other way, a lot of manufacturing would have moved out of the USA as the manufacturers would have had a lot more control over resale. This is a gross overstatement. Most manufacturing does not involve copyright and so this ruling would have no bearing on that at all. The simplest way I can put this from my non-lawyer understanding is, "copyright law does not trump first sale doctrine".
- LordKano 12y agoI'm sorry but this ruling is one of the things that establishes that. Had this ruling gone the other way, copyright would trump first sale doctrine.
- throwawaykf05 12y agoYes, I meant to say "The simplest way I can put this ruling from my non-lawyer understanding is..."
- michaelt 12y agoMost manufacturing does not involve copyright Microchip layouts and printed circuit board designs are usually copyrighted. And you could easily mould some copyrightable text onto a pair of headphones or a sandwich box if you wanted to.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoThere's not really a whole lot of manufacturing left in this country to move out.