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Originally Posted by jhempel24
My question about selling is this: Half-Price Books, if it was illegal, then they wouldn't be in business. I know some of their books come from donations and they buy overstock....but if selling used books is illegal because it falls under that same "sharing" category, they wouldn't be in business.
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That's the "first sale doctrine" in action. With paper books there's (almost) no issue about creating an extra copy when you sell, so there's no
copyright problem with Half-Price books -- as long as they acquired the books through legitimate channels. (Almost no issue, because hardly anyone makes copies of physical books, and then sells the original while keeping the copy.)
The issues I was discussing have to do with
additional copies produced through format-shifting, or DRM-removal, or downloading, or uploading, or selling on your CDs while keeping your ripped MP3s. Which is a completely different issue, legally speaking.
Xenophon