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If a business acquires the right to distribute a product in a particular territory, its contract will prevent it from selling that product in other territories. If it does so, e.g. by catalog, it could...
I don't think so.
That waiting is exactly my point.
And if the government-sanctioned publisher chose not to print the material, you had no access to it unless your body travled outside the commmonwealth and made the purchases in small enough amounts that your customs department would overlook the infraction.
Now, start thinking about non-fiction, and this policy has guaranteed that Britain will be "behind" in all aspects of science, technology, economics, trade, etc. Wilson kept carping about how England should have been receiving all the royalties and net profits of all other countries' technology and science businesses. Then in the next section would be so proud of the fact that union leaders, business heads, and top government officials addressed this problem by having a f***ing meeting. (f***ing was my word but that is all having such a meeting would accomplish.) Everybody was so agreeable that they agreed to go away and study the problem. From experience, all this does is handcuff those who do the work from any innovation.
This kind of stuff always ends up with "we're not done yet and can't do any more studying until we get more money and an extension of a year to finish." Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat...
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Right. In this case the distribution had already been done to the store in the other country. So...
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