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Originally Posted by taustin
More important, the publisher has to deliberately print those books in foreign countries for them to be bought there.
That ruling will have very little effect on anyone anywhere. To the extent that it does have an effect, it will result in publishers tending to print books only in the most lucrative markets - the US.
(And I have no idea where he got the idea that such gray market imports have been illegal up until now, unless he's talking about that particular case until it got to SCOTUS - rulings that never were case law, and so far as I know, were never actually in effect because they were being appealed. The publisher in that case reached - beyond their grasp. They lose, and rightly so.)
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You are entirely correct; it wasn't previously illegal, it just wasn't that clear and it's a little sad that Scott, a lawyer, doesn't seem to understand that.