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Originally Posted by elcreative
Giving away a book doesn't mean you are giving up your LEGAL copyright interests so giving it away because you got it free is not legal unless it includes the clearly stated right to give it away... something like open commons but without that you are infringing on the author's rights...
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LAWS have been, are, and will be subject to change. Copyrights included. Here's something Thomas Jefferson thought, he was a United States President,
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
So if the United States Congress decided tomorrow that ebooks are subject to first sale rights etc.. What would happen then? Especially to books that have at any point in time been listed at a zero price point??