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Originally Posted by CazMar
Yep - if I wanted to buy a "license" then I would do so. I buy, I own. So why do Amazon etc say "buy a book"? Surely this is misleading advertising, they should say "buy a book license".
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Technically, they do bury a mention that it's a limited license somewhere. It's in the fine print.
It's like the 57 page EULA on the Disney Sleeping Beauty Blu-Ray, along with a 63 page privacy agreement.
http://boingboing.net/2008/10/09/kid...o-agree-t.html
Is anyone going to read that whole thing? No. Same with the legalese on Kindle downloads. This kind of stuff shouldn't be legal.
Edit: found it for the Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200506200
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1. Digital Content
Use of Digital Content. Upon your download of Digital Content and payment of any applicable fees (including applicable taxes), the Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Kindle or a Reading Application or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Kindles or Other Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Digital Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider. The Content Provider may include additional terms for use within its Digital Content. Those terms will also apply, but this Agreement will govern in the event of a conflict. Some Digital Content, such as Periodicals, may not be available to you through Reading Applications.
Limitations. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense, or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove or modify any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not bypass, modify, defeat, or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
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I disagree with ApK on his attitude towards licensing vs property (and I hold to my attitude that if I purchase something, it is my property). I would think that American revolutionaries/founders would roll over in their graves to know that someone else could tell you what you couldn't do with your own property
Of course, a good portion of them kept slaves as property
...but I don't want to muck up my own argument
But he's right that focusing on re-labeling it as a license is getting off-track.