Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril - Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential - MarketWatch
By Jennifer Waters
Another new plan to separate and keep you from your money. This from the SCOTUS. Probably another future taxable item for the IRS. What in the world is happening to us?
By Jennifer Waters
Another new plan to separate and keep you from your money. This from the SCOTUS. Probably another future taxable item for the IRS. What in the world is happening to us?
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.
That’s being challenged now for products that are made abroad, and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling, it would mean that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in China, Japan or Europe, for example, would have to give you permission to sell it.