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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
elcreative by selling you transfer possession and ownership of the item. you get money buyer gets item. end of the story. if you don't like the idea someone may buy a book in order to spinecut and ocr it or use it as a bunch of shit-begone leafs instead of reading don't sell since it's YOU who cheats by "selling" if you actually are not willing to transfer all the rights connected to such an action.
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You are missing the point of the hypothetical case... I couldn't care less what someone does with the item after they've bought it but I don't see the point of the emphasis on OCR'ing something that is produced as an artistic object... I wasn't referring to a novel or anything similar... one such item (as I've already stated) might be an artistic work based around specific typographic expressions of individual letters of the alphabet on custom paper which also incorporates designs into it - each letter being a different typeface and related to the actual paper it is printed on... now any idiot who wants to OCR "A, B, C etc" is welcome to do it but might find it quicker to type "A, B, C etc" in directly but it still wouldn't be the original, carefully crafted and designed concept piece...
And it is perfectly possible to buy an artistic work and have no other rights than to look at it, burn it, use as toilet paper but the artist still retains ALL reproduction rights... they are separate to the actual art unless contractually included in the sale...