Law360, New York ( April 21, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT) -- This Monday, April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court once again will hear arguments in the landmark copyright case, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons. The now-famous dispute last reached the Supreme Court in 2013, when a six-justice majority led by Justice Stephen G. Breyer ruled that first sale doctrine of the Copyright Act (codified at § 17 U.S.C. § 109(a)) applies not only to U.S.-made goods but also to goods manufactured abroad and imported into the United States. In a 6-3 opinion, the high court rejected a geographic limitation of the first-sale doctrine proposed by publisher John Wiley & Sons, which would bar or severely limit a purchaser's resale rights....
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