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Originally Posted by Shaggy
You can resell a paperback, last time I checked. Copyright law doesn't have anything to do with sale vs license.
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Yes, you can. You can resell a paperback. You can resell a car.
Last
I checked, neither paperbacks nor cars were eBooks.
There are LOTS of things you can do with eBooks that you can't do with paperbacks (or cars) and vice versa.
That you can do it with one is not in any way a valid argument that you should be able to do it with the other.
Ebooks can be instantly replaced by download if the files are lost.
Shall we complain that publishers don't replace our paperbacks instantly for free if we lose them?
If you think we should have resale rights on ebooks, great. I'm with you.
But it's not because "we have resale rights on other things."
The mention of copyright was just to point out that there are limits on our use and reuse of the physical books we buy (and many other goods) as well.
It's matter of which limits we think are fair and appropriate to the actual case at hand, not just comparing it to some different case.
ApK