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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
No, you buy the e-book or software. You own it. You are just restricted by the license by what you can do with it.
This issue is sort of confusing because there is no one platonic ideal of ownership. "Ownership" means a collection of rights with respect to property. (Or, as they say in law school, property is a bundle of sticks).
What that means is that when you own something, you have a variety of rights you can exercise with respect to that property ("sticks"). But you don't have all of the sticks. No one has all of the sticks.
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Exactly. So the original argument that it could not be ownership since you could not re-sell it is not valid. Which was the only thing I commented about.