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The point stands that there is a well-established, well-funded and well-connected group protecting copyright, so going against it in any form will not be easy.
by unreal37 12y ago
The point stands that there is a well-established, well-funded and well-connected group protecting copyright, so going against it in any form will not be easy.
If a citizen tries to get copyright law amended through the courts, they will face an epic battle from all sides.
- walterbell 12y agohttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-an-ebay-bookseller-defeated-a-publishing-giant-at-the-supreme-court/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-an-ebay-books... "Sometimes all it takes to alter the course of history is one pissed-off person. Supap Kirtsaeng wasn’t a crusader or lone nut; he was just an eBay trader who got backed into a legal corner and refused to give up. To help pay for grad school at USC, he sold textbooks online—legitimate copies that he’d purchased overseas. But academic publishing behemoth John Wiley & Sons sued Supap, claiming that his trade in Wiley’s foreign-market textbooks constituted copyright infringement. ... Once Supap’s struggle hit the spotlight, powerful supporters such as eBay, Public Knowledge, Costco, and Goodwill Industries joined the fray. But the forces pitted against Supap were arguably more powerful: the movie and music industries, publishers of books and software, and even the US Solicitor General."