Citizens for Ownership Rights Collecting Petition Signatures to Protect Rights to Resell
An upcoming Supreme Court case, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, involves an eBay seller who was sued by a textbook publisher for reselling books. (Legitimate books — not counterfeit, pirated, or stolen.) The publisher is trying to use U.S. copyright law to stop the book sales and make the seller pay $600,000 in damages – more than 15 times what he made from selling the books. Citizens for Ownership Rights (CFOR) is a coalition of public interest organizations gathering signatures for a petition that will be sent directly to the President and Attorney General urging them to support the rights of Americans to purchase legitimate goods, resell those goods, give them away, or use them in any legal manner as they see fit.