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At 11:31 AM 6/11/2003 -0400, James L Wolf wrote: > Mike offers a good example here of non-abandonment of copyright. On >the Naxos site you can find several Met operas but they say in big print >"Not available in the United States". You can't get them from Amazon-US >either. You can from Amazon UK and there's nothing on Amazon UK saying >they won't ship them to the US, but I would guess that it's illegal to >do so. > If an American goes on Amazon UK and buys these and they ship them >to America, who's breaking the law, Amazon UK or the purchaser? Or is it >somehow legal? Probably, no one. It's not illegal to import such material. In other fields, it's considered "gray market". It certainly is not illegal to sell it in a country where its sale is legal. (Boy, talk about a tautology!) Mike [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/