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Originally Posted by ApK
You'll continue to be wrong no matter how many times you repeat it. That the licence comes from law (called an implied license, IIRC) doesn't change what it is. Your rights to use someone else's intellectual property is called license. Just look it up.
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You're using the word license wrong.
When you buy a physical book, you don't get a license for the content, you get a copy of it. IOW, you get a copy of the content that you "own". What you can do with that book is governed by the contract between you and the person who sold you the book.
What you can do with the content of the book depends on the contract between you and the copyright holder. Assuming there is one. There usually isn't though.
I mean, you're almost right. It just that usually, when you buy a book, there is no license involved. I say usually because contracts can change that. You can contract with someone to get more rights, or get fewer. With regards to copyright, you usually don't get anything when you buy a physical book. "All rights reserved", as they say.
So you're right that you don't get a copyright on the content of the book, but you're wrong when you characterize what you do get as a license. Especially since you typically don't get anything.
Don't feel to bad though, there's a lot of confusing legal terminology floating around about copyrights, contracts, and ownership. And often concepts are conflated.