http://interactionlaw.com/wordpress/2008/01/06/gray-market-piracy-come-on/ Competition, Copyright and Freedom of Expression Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://interactionlaw.com/wordpress/2008/01/06/gray-market-piracy-come-on/#comment-2935 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:17:12 +0000 http://interactionlaw.com/wordpress/2008/01/06/gray-market-piracy-come-on/#comment-2935 [...] Those merchants whose sales are undercut by gray market imports would attempt to argue piracy without success. (See this post.) Ten years ago, Delco had a significant problem with Korean distributors rerouting auto batteries into the Chinese market at profit margins higher than could be gotten in Korea and yet at prices lower than Delco’s China distributors charged for the same product. Hmm, fire Jackson in the Global Pricing Department… [...] […] Those merchants whose sales are undercut by gray market imports would attempt to argue piracy without success. (See this post.) Ten years ago, Delco had a significant problem with Korean distributors rerouting auto batteries into the Chinese market at profit margins higher than could be gotten in Korea and yet at prices lower than Delco’s China distributors charged for the same product. Hmm, fire Jackson in the Global Pricing Department… […]

]]> http://interactionlaw.com/wordpress/2008/01/06/gray-market-piracy-come-on/#comment-2917 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:49:04 +0000 http://interactionlaw.com/wordpress/2008/01/06/gray-market-piracy-come-on/#comment-2917 [...] January 9, 2008 in economics, intellectual property by jsalvati The Coyote Blog via CopyOwner points to this CRM Buyer article about “gray market piracy.” “Gray market piracy” is where companies in poor places, where copyright using products are sold cheaply, export the copyright using products back into rich countries to profit from the price differential. Both Coyote and CopyOwner bemoan the fact that the article calls these exporters “pirates.” CopyOwner is right to point out that gray market exporters are not legally pirates, the article says as much, but that does not mean it would be a bad idea to make reimportation of copyright using products illegal or restricted. The net effect of such a law would be to give copyright holders an improved ability to discriminate geographically, and I think there is a good argument that this would be good. [...] […] January 9, 2008 in economics, intellectual property by jsalvati The Coyote Blog via CopyOwner points to this CRM Buyer article about “gray market piracy.” “Gray market piracy” is where companies in poor places, where copyright using products are sold cheaply, export the copyright using products back into rich countries to profit from the price differential. Both Coyote and CopyOwner bemoan the fact that the article calls these exporters “pirates.” CopyOwner is right to point out that gray market exporters are not legally pirates, the article says as much, but that does not mean it would be a bad idea to make reimportation of copyright using products illegal or restricted. The net effect of such a law would be to give copyright holders an improved ability to discriminate geographically, and I think there is a good argument that this would be good. […]

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