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Originally Posted by Strolls
This is very well established in law. It's called the doctrine of first sale.
When you buy a book from the publisher you are not "renting" or "licensing" the right to read it - you're buying the book which you can read in perpetuity for the rest of your life, so long as you continue to own the book. If you sell the book, you transfer that right. If you sell the book you deprive yourself of the right to read the book, and you must buy another copy if you wan to read it again. |
And proponents of DRM maintain that The Doctrine of First Sale does not apply to ebooks with DRM. They say that ebooks are only licensed.
http://www.iposgoode.ca/2010/04/firs...gital-content/
http://boingboing.net/2008/03/23/in-...of-ebooks.html