This issue, organized by Editorial Board member Aaron Panner, dives deeply into a recent Supreme Court decision—Kirtsaeng. Our authors explore the numerous features posed by what may initially look like…

Ariel Lavinbuk, May 28, 2013 In Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons Inc., the Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act’s first-sale doctrine applies to all copies of a copyrighted…

Brian Willen, May 28, 2013 For hundreds of years, the “first sale” doctrine has been central to copyright law. It helps reconcile a fundamental tension between copyright owners’ ability to…

John Villasenor, May 28, 2013 In 1908, the Supreme Court articulated the first sale doctrine, holding inBobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus that a copyright owner’s “right to vend” did not include the…

Aaron Panner, May 28, 2013 In Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 margin that the “first sale” doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. 109(a),…

Scott Hemphill, Jeannie Suk, May 28, 2013 Earlier this year, in an important copyright ruling, the Supreme Court dropped a puzzling clue about copyright for designs that merits examination. In…

Jonathan Cheng, Adam Eckart, Deidre Johnson, Simone Waterbury, May 28, 2013 In August 2011, the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger rules and form received their second major overhaul since the enactment of the…