The End of Second Hand Sales?


There are a lot of cases that go before the Supreme Court and many of them you could probably care less about.

This case is one you’ll want to pay attention to.

It involves copyrights and selling items you own.Corporate Intelligence

At issue in Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons JWA is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.

Put simply, though Apple has the copyright on the iPhone, you can still sell your copies to whomever you please whenever you want without retribution.



Millions of Americans would be affected by this.

In case you say so what. If the Supreme Court rules that this law can be enforced and you would have to get permission to sell an item:


That could be the end of:



Events like Duck, Duck Goose

And any stores that resell items


If you do business like this YOU need to be watching to see what happens.