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The 2013 Supreme Court case is *Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.*, where a Thai student sold inexpensive international editions of textbooks in the U.S. [1]. The publisher argued this undermined their territorial pricing strategy: charging lower prices in developing markets like Thailand while charging higher U.S. prices [1]. The Court held that the first-sale doctrine applies to goods lawfully made abroad, protecting the student's resale. The seminal 1984 case is *Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.*, which established that home video recording was fair use [2]. MPAA head Jack Valenti famously testified before Congress: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone" [2]. *Sony* enabled video rental businesses by ruling that manufacturers weren't liable for users' potentially infringing conduct, and that non-commercial home recording was permissible [2]. This precedent meant rental companies like Blockbuster could purchase videocassettes and rent them without copyright holder permission, as they were merely distributing lawfully purchased copies under the first-sale doctrine [2]. ## References [1] Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 568 U.S. 519 (2013). Decision and analysis of territorial pricing strategy. [2] Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984). Valenti testimony and implications for video rental industry.

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