Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley. The case involves the legality of purchasing copyrighted works that are made and sold overseas with the authority of the publisher and then resold into the United States without the publisher’s authority. At issue in the case was whether the first sale doctrine — a legal principle that allows a person who buys (rather than licenses) a copy of a copyrighted work to resell or distribute the copy without the publisher’s permission — applies to copyrighted products that were made abroad. In a 6-3 decision, the Court overturned the Second Circuit decision and held that the first sale doctrine applies to copies of copyrighted works that are legally manufactured abroad.