If You Sell Your Used iPad, You May Be a Copyright Criminal, Says U.S. Supreme Court

Bet you didn`t know that, my American friends.

There is another copyright battle emerging over intellectual property, and this  time you, John or Jane Q. Citizen, could be smack-dab in the middle of it, for  one of the most innocuous acts you could imagine – selling your used  iPad.

At present the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to rule on a  case that will affect whether you can sell that iPad of yours, or any of dozens  of other products, without first getting permission from scores of “copyright  holders,” The Atlantic magazine reported.

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