Respondent, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., publishes aca demic textbooks. Wiley obtains from its authors various foreign and domestic copyright assignments, licenses an
Permissions to the point that we can, for present pur poses, refer to Wiley as the relevant American copyright owner. Wiley often assigns to its wholly owned foreign subsidiary, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd., rights to publish, print, and sell Wiley’s English language textbooks abroad. App. to Pet. for Cert. 47a–48a. Each copy of a Wiley Asia foreign edition will likely contain language making clear that the copy is to be sold only in a particular country or geograph ical region outside the United States.