Quote:
Originally Posted by elcreative
If you purchase it then you own it... if it's a library book then you are only borrowing it as the actual owner is the library... and that doesn't make you the owner just because your payments help to support the library...  |
If ownership is the key factor, rather than direct or indirect purchase, then you get some odd results.
First, what of a person who becomes the legal owner of a stolen book by buying it at a market overt?
Second, what of a person who becomes the legal owner of a book gifted to him by a person who originally purchased it legally, and first used and copied it for his own purposes before passing it on?