Thread: CNN: Why can't you 'give' an e-book?
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Old 08-11-2010, 04:56 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Nathanael View Post
So imagine if Amazon allowed you to gift an ebook. Since the gift recipient did not enter into any legal agreement, he would presumably be legally free to do whatever he wants with the thing -- torrent it, send out copies to all his friends, whatever. Suddenly there's this legally unencumbered copy of someone's IP floating around the digital ether, with no way for the content owners to stuff the genie back in the bottle. Allowing people to send ebooks as gifts would create a huge loophole in the wall of legal protection content producers are trying to build around the content they own.
No, that's not how copyright law works. You're confusing it with contract law.
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