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Old 11-25-2009, 10:01 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by opitzs View Post
I don't know (american) law well enough, however

When you buy a book, you buy a medium with content. In German it is a "Sache", it is a property.
When you buy an ebook, you obtain rights to read something, e.g. a book, but you get no property. Otherwise DRM would not be possible.
Under US law some 'rights' are a type of property, which can be bought, sold, transferred, donated, etc. Whether or not the right to read a book is such a type has yet to be tested in court AFAIK.
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