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Originally Posted by geoffwood
If you want to stick to concepts of property and ownership, then you need to stick to physical books.
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Even with a physical book, you only own the paper, ink, and glue that it's made from. You don't own the words in the book, other than a rather limited right to read them to yourself. You can't, for example, hold a public performance and read from the book without the author's permission.