Depends on the goods.
Personal property (Stuff you allready paid sales
tax on) is usually exempt.
It can also depend how often you're doing these
types of yard sales (at wich point your city/state
may look at it as a business).
Some areas require a permit even for yard sales.
You can't assume it would have been purchased,
hence no loss.
Lets say i write a shareware app that matched photoshop capabilities, and recorded every pc that went beyond the 30 day trial. I would end
up in jail for even trying to claim a single loss
on next years tax forms.
The differance is one is a copywrite violation, one isn't.
Piracy is'nt the same thing, selling illegal copies as your own definatly hurts someone.
I have no problem with patents for physical objects/processes, they tend to be verry specific.
The problem today it seems ideas themselves are
getting patented (Software) with fairly generic implementations.
Take the paper-clip, there are many differant
patented designs and processes for creating them.
Take (insert your favorite audio/video encoding scheme here), any attempt to make it better/faster is impossible without stepping on
the original patent.
If the appartments are privately owned, even
if on campus property, campus rules Arn't always
enforcable til you walk out the front door.
(example, i could drink/smoke in my aprtment on
campus, but walk out the door with it would
violating campus rules)
The school has no right to tell anyone living in
private quarters, wether on campus or 100 miles away what they can and can't do.
Can't find the link, but Sony or Nintendo already
tried going after custom developers for trademark violations. Their case was shot down because the
devs didnt have control over the display of the
logo.
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Im tired of hearing that stupid shit, they dont cause cancer, they reduce the immune systems ability to fight it off.
Depends on the goods. Personal property (Stuff you allready paid sales tax on) is usually exempt. It can also depend how often you're doing these types of yard sales (at wich point your city/state may look at it as a business). Some areas require a permit even for yard sales.
You can't assume it would have been purchased, hence no loss. Lets say i write a shareware app that matched photoshop capabilities, and recorded every pc that went beyond the 30 day trial. I would end up in jail for even trying to claim a single loss on next years tax forms. The differance is one is a copywrite violation, one isn't. Piracy is'nt the same thing, selling illegal copies as your own definatly hurts someone.
I have no problem with patents for physical objects/processes, they tend to be verry specific. The problem today it seems ideas themselves are getting patented (Software) with fairly generic implementations. Take the paper-clip, there are many differant patented designs and processes for creating them. Take (insert your favorite audio/video encoding scheme here), any attempt to make it better/faster is impossible without stepping on the original patent.
If the appartments are privately owned, even if on campus property, campus rules Arn't always enforcable til you walk out the front door. (example, i could drink/smoke in my aprtment on campus, but walk out the door with it would violating campus rules) The school has no right to tell anyone living in private quarters, wether on campus or 100 miles away what they can and can't do.
Can't find the link, but Sony or Nintendo already tried going after custom developers for trademark violations. Their case was shot down because the devs didnt have control over the display of the logo.