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Originally Posted by ficbot
But if you are destroying the original book in order to scan it, you are not making a 'copy' since you'll still have only one version. You are making a format-shift  |
Glad you added the smiley; someone might've thought you were serious.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
My view for regular books is, if the folks at Big Five want this to be a 'license' (with corresponding powers to them to limit or restrict my use) and not a 'sale' (where I own the book and can do as I please with it, including re-selling and loaning)....
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(I thought that was the "Big Six"...)
Short version of the longer answer I just posted: all your rights wrt a pbook (reselling, loaning, burning) derive from the physical book itself; over the IP contents in that book you have never had any rights. Since an ebook is pure, distilled IP divorced from any physical medium, all the rights you've come to expect from pbooks are gone. You can no more (legally) loan out or give away a copy of an ebook without permission than you could make a photocopy of a pbook to give to a friend.