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Originally Posted by Giggleton
But we don't need to copy books anymore... We just need to be able to access them.
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Not actually true. We call it access, but what we're actually talking about is copying. When an ebook resides on server, and a person wants to read it on a device that doesn't have a local copy, the person first has to download it to the device. There is absolutely no way around this unless we're talking about a dumb terminal, and no eReader I know of is a dumb terminal. Downloading makes a copy of the ebook that's on the server on the eReader.
So yes, copying is an important part of the process we talk about when we talk about access.
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It seems to me that buying an ereader and "legally" purchasing a number of books and then selling the reader with those legally purchased books on it, will be legal. No different than paper as far as I can see. The author is not compensated of course, which is the whole reason for copyright??
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Well, there may be a difference if you bought different rights. They don't, yet,
have to sell you the right transfer your ownership.
But consider this: if you load an ebook up with books and then sell the ebook with the books loaded on them, fine. But if you go to re-download the books onto a different eReader, you are (as I explained above) copying the books. And now we're back at copyright. Because you likely didn't buy the right to make a copy
and then sell that copy. Which is what you would have done in this hypothetical.