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Old 05-19-2012, 01:03 PM   #34
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
With the very greatest respect, I have to disagree with you. The breach of copyright occurs at the point that you give the book away, because by doing that you've created an unauthorised copy. It doesn't matter what you subsequently do; the copy you've given away is unauthorised.
If I download my purchases to an SD card in my ereader (as I often do), I haven't made an unauthorized copy. If I later give away that card, I haven't made an unauthorized copy.

(This is all hypothetical; I own exactly one memory card, and I use it to move books between my Sony and PEZ.)
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