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Originally Posted by joblack
That's not true. Compare the agreement at oreilly.com. You can also lend or sell your e-book.
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No, it's absolutely true. He never said the terms were always identical.
You linked to O'Reilly's LICENSE TERMS. Just because they used the word "buy" some where in it, does not imbue the word with some magic legal power that undoes copyright law or change what it is.
That's the whole point. You need to give up this irrelevant "own vs. license" noise.
What you really want -- what we all want -- is better licensing terms. More rights to do certain stuff with the content.
As the O'Reilly license shows, there is nothing preventing us from having those rights.
We just need to make it clear to publishers, and failing that, to legislators, that we demand them.
ApK