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Originally Posted by eskimo49
There is similar problems with photographs and software. When you pay a photographer to take your photographs, at a wedding or a formal photograph (usually in a studio), then the copyright belongs to the photographer, not the person paying for it - UNLESS agreed otherwise (and usually at extra expense).
When you purchase software, you are usually buying a licence to use the software, not the software itself.
So should books,e-books, CD,s DVD films be any different?
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That's the only letdown I feel with e-books, and is why I insist on only buying the cheapest books possible, or reading mostly public domain literature.
I can use my cd's and dvds, and paper books, because they are self-contained, and EASY to pass from one person to another without a third party nosing in on my business, telling me who can and can't touch stuff that I personally paid for.
I have DVDs sitting on my shelf that I own, that I must have allowed dozens of people to use and likewise they have let me watch some of theirs. No problem, not illegal, no copies were made, I just let someone use my physical thing.
With e-books a person can't generally do that - it's currently a grey area, because hitting "send" means a copy gets made (if I email a book for instance) and I've broken copyright, even if I do end up deleting all traces of my original.
It's the nature of the beast. But the fact that I insist on my books be DRM free (at the store) and inexpensive is a tradeoff for the restrictions that come with it. I'll still give away my printed books (and still do).