Court Opinion

ID: 9433589
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:40:44.738868+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:42.876866
License: Public Domain

Justice Ginsburg,
concurring.
This case involves a “round trip” journey, travel of the copies in question from the United States to places abroad, then back again. I join the Court’s opinion recognizing that we do not today resolve eases in which the allegedly infringing imports were manufactured abroad. See W. Patry, Copyright Law and Practice 166-170 (1997 Supp.) (commenting that provisions of Title 17 do not apply extraterritorially unless expressly so stated, hence the words “lawfully made under this title” in the “first sale” provision, 17 U. S. C. § 109(a), must mean “lawfully made in the United States”); see generally P. Goldstein, Copyright § 16.0, pp. 16:1-16:2 (2d ed. 1998) (“Copyright protection is territorial. The rights granted by the United States Copyright Act extend no farther than the nation’s borders.”).