SIIA Defends Publishers’ Copyright Before Supreme Court
SIIA last week filed an amicus brief in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. — a hotly contested case that could undermine U.S. publishers’ competitiveness in the global marketplace. The case involves the legality of purchasing copyrighted works that are made and sold overseas and reselling them into the U.S. without authorization from the publisher. SIIA has taken the lead in previous court filings to defend the flexibility for publishers to employ the most effective and efficient market strategies by controlling their content and price structures from country to country, and in this brief we argue that there are a variety of beneficial reasons for a publisher to prevent copies made for sale abroad from entering the United States.
Read more: SIIA Tells Supreme Court that ‘First Sale Doctrine’ Should Not Apply to Copies of Copyrighted Works Made Abroad & Resold in U.S.
SIIA Amicus Brief in Kirtsaeng v Wiley & Sons
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Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.