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Courts looking into printer cartridges?
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlXhMfiW3c | Frankly I'm not willing to spend time watching videos when I don't know what they are. It apparently wasn't important enough for you to explain your point. If you're talking about the Supreme Court case, it's a very interesting situation. The transcript of proceedings is he https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_ar...-1189_6468.pdf I converted it to text and have been trying to slog through it, to get a sense of where the case is going. One version of the story is he http://fortune.com/2017/03/21/suprem...mark-printers/ A clearer version might be this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/b...tent-case.html (Won't load without cookies enabled.) It's a significant issue in that it's dealing with whether a patent allows the manufacturer to control how a product is used. Lexmark is trying to block cartridge refills by claiming that single-use is part of their sale terms. That conflicts with first sale doctrine in terms of copyright, which provides that all rights are transferred with a sale. (Otherwise it's really a lease, after all.) But Lexmark is not even claiming copyright infringement. They're claiming they have patent rights on a sold product! Surprisingly, lower courts have sided with Lexmark. There's a similar trend happening with copyright. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-o...ip-john-deere/ Companies are trying to claim they control a product sold because copyrighted software is used in that product. One example is John Deere preventing unauthorized repair of tractors. They want to control that business. I recently read that American farmers are now using Russian hacks to bypass restrictions on their own tractors. To clarify, John Deere is saying they still own the software in your tractor and thus partially control what can be done with the tractor. The Lexmark case is analogous to John Deere saying they still own the tractor itself because it's patented. Therefore they can control how/where you use the tractor, for how long, etc. Could camera companies eventually try to control where you can store your photos? Might you be forced to buy all car parts from the manufacturer? The implications of this are very broad, if either copyright or patent is redefined to mean that the producer owns the copy you bought. |
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Courts looking into printer cartridges?
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wrote: Could camera companies eventually try to control where you can store your photos? no. Might you be forced to buy all car parts from the manufacturer? you're late to the party. numerous car parts are only available from the manufacturer. no third party options available. in some cases, certain repairs can *only* be done by authorized dealers because the necessary tools are made available only to them. your local mechanic *can't* do it. |
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