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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
If I buy a physical book, it's mine, I'm going to do with it what I want whether I keep it, give it to someone, give it to a library whatever.
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Yes you own the book, the container for the art. But do you own the art?
In the premodern copyright era 1500-1700? The idea of intellectual property did not really exist, at least in law. A book was a book, both the container and the art contained within. Only in the modern copyright era 1700-1900? was a book divided into the container, the paper, and the ideas contained on the pages.
I suppose we are now in the postmodern era of copyright, all that exists is the idea, the text. Previous laws do not apply.