body: Amazon.com sometimes refuses to sell me audiobooks. The message is as follows:
  
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8SQAS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8SQAS.png)
  
  
  I don't understand how a copyright can be enforced in *other countries*. Surely copyright holds for a specific country where it is registered, and has no enforceable jurisdiction in others. Is this type of copyright restriction valid? Under what law?
  
  
  I can buy the digital text, so this issue is with the copyright for the audio only.
  
  
  
title: Copyright restriction in other countries