Beyond Trade : Global Digital Exhaustion in International Economic Regulation

This Article investigates the nature of digital exhaustion and argues that a regime for digital exhaustion should become global in nature and enforced through international dispute settlement systems, such as that of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This would reflect the global nature of e-commerce and create a harmonized international copyright regime for the exhaustion of digital products. Courts across the globe have been battling with how to handle these questions. While such questions may be the domain of national copyright laws, the problem with exhaustion of digital goods has been extended beyond the scope of such laws