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Originally Posted by Nathanael
Are we talking about US law here?
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Yes. These issues have already been well established in US law. Format shifting, for example, is legal.
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First, because first-sale doctrine derives from the physical medium of a pbook.
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According to who?
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Second, because you license ebooks, there is no sale, and thus no first-sale doctrine applies.
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US courts have already ruled on this, and set the ground lines for the differences between content owners claiming a license vs a sale. The way the retailers currently operate with regards to eBooks seems to be clearly a sale transaction. Retailers/Publishers want you to believe that it is only a license, but it doesn't correspond to what the courts have said.