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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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It wouldn't be cheating if the buyer clearly knew what rights were not transferred to him. I can give you several examples from the physical world:
1.)In Texas it is quite common to sell a piece of land but the original owner retains mineral rights (in the case of natural gas that can be tapped from below without disturbing the new owner's use of the property).
2.)Last I have heard, when you buy a Ferrari you are not allowed to resell it for 1-2 years. I am not sure if they still have this clause now, but they definitely had such restrictions a few years ago. It was basically because they had long delivery times and didn't want people to order one for 400K and resell it for 1 million immediately.
3.)Works of art quite often are given a way or being sold under the condition that they are to be displayed in a museum.
Why shouldn't a buyer and a seller be able to make up their own rules? That is fine as long as it is fair and holds up in court.