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Originally Posted by ApK
The copyright issue involved, and the specter of possible illegality come from the unauthorized duplication of a work, which is a basic copyright protection.
You have an effective license to duplicate a digital file and read it's contents for a period of time. If you keep the book, or the mp3, or the video, in a usable form longer than that, you are now in possession of an unauthorized copy of the work. That's a copyright violation.
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That aspect of it had not occurred to me. You're absolutely right; once your licence expires copyright then does enter into it.
Thanks for pointing that out!