Internet tax supporters are hoping that a vote in the U.S. Senate today will finally give them enough political leverage to require Americans to pay sales taxes when shopping online.
The ad featuring that amazing BMW sitting in the late afternoon sun? Or that spotless, impeccable, drool-worthy camera? It could be real. Or it may not exist at all.
In a closely-watched case, Kirtsaeng vs. Wiley, the U.S. Supreme Court today vindicated the first-sale doctrine, declaring that it “applies to copies of a copyrighted work lawfully made abroad.”
The case involved a Thai graduate student in the U. (Read more…)S. who sold cheap foreign versions of textbooks on eBay without the publisher’s permission.
