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Gray Market Imports -- Recent U.S. Court Ruling

Posted on May 22, 2008

In law, are gray market imports equivalent to pirated works? [Read this journal article on the implications for American libraries of imported pirated works from China.] Gray market imports are lawfully produced with the permission of the copyright holder, sold to a customer in a foreign country and then imported into another, often the country of origin, at far lower prices than new product on the shelves. Pirates, however, are copies produced without the copyright owner's permission and sold for next to nothing. In both cases -- resale into the gray market and sale of pirate copies -- th...

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