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The use of a dictionary is copyrighted, when you buy the e-reader you buy the right to use it in your reader and a little amount of money is payd to the maker of the dictionary,you get a licence to use it, but that is something else then rip it and use it in other applications, so I can understand that the maker of the dictionary would ask Kobo to avoid it for being shared as he no longer get money for it, even for the fonts you pay money to the maker of the font and get a licence to use it ( exerpt the free fonts) to adopt a reader so you can use it the way you want it, is something else then to use some parts of it for something completely else, I am not a person that has troubles with it but I can understand that Kobo does, that it is available in first editions doesn't say that you are in right to use it for your own ways, the use of the dictionary is prohibited, it is stated in the paper that comes with the reader, I don't know if it is also on the Kobo reader, but in the Sony reader it is made clear in the user manual on the reader itself that you are granted to use the dictionary's in the reader itself, but are not granted to use it outside due to copyright, so the owner of the dictionary can say to Kobo, you are no longer granted to use it in your readers.
So changing the functions of your own reader is something completely different then take something out and use it in another application that indeed is illegal.
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