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cybmole · 02-21-2011, 11:23 AM

but I doubt that amazon could prove that any given de-drmed book came origianlly from the amazon store or from some other store or format.

phrase matching could e.g. prove that I have a non-encrypted source of war and peace on my Kindle but it cannot detect whose source was de-drmed ?. I am not an expert on book copyright law but somehow I doubt that Amazon own any book copyrights - those will reside with the paper book publishers - Amazon will just have a licence to produce e-book versions in exchange for royalty payments. look in a purchased Kindle book & see who "owns" the story.

update - I look in a Kindle book & see
Copyright © [year] by [author name]
then the usual blurb about work of fiction - resemblance to real people...blah blah
the works Kindle & Amazon appear nowhere.

02-21-2011, 11:23 AM	#5
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	but I doubt that amazon could prove that any given de-drmed book came origianlly from the amazon store or from some other store or format. phrase matching could e.g. prove that I have a non-encrypted source of war and peace on my Kindle but it cannot detect whose source was de-drmed ?. I am not an expert on book copyright law but somehow I doubt that Amazon own any book copyrights - those will reside with the paper book publishers - Amazon will just have a licence to produce e-book versions in exchange for royalty payments. look in a purchased Kindle book & see who "owns" the story. update - I look in a Kindle book & see Copyright © [year] by [author name] then the usual blurb about work of fiction - resemblance to real people...blah blah the works Kindle & Amazon appear nowhere. Last edited by cybmole; 02-21-2011 at 11:38 AM.