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Originally Posted by pietvo
Which law would that be?
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I'm of the mind that the only legal limitation is due to geographic limitations put into contracts between the authors and the publisher.
An author would much rather sell the US rights, the CDN rights, the UK rights, the NK rights all separately, I suspect, and the publisher wants a guarantee, in return, that no other publisher will be selling books in their territory....all contractually bound in writing. IANAL but doubt there are any laws that prevent international sales of items IF the contract originally signed had permitted them. I'd blame the authors and the agents, here, as much as publishers.