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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
Maybe this is why more publishers don't sell their ebooks online themselves? They sell them to sellers who expicitly state that they are selling licences, not books. That way the publisher doesn't have to pay as if they sold a license.
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That's what the court case at the root of this thread was deciding.
The judgement was that publishers couldn't in any way be said to be selling electronic music files to the retailer for resale (or anything else). Instead they were licensing the retailer to make copies of a master file.