Thread: You are not the owner of Amazon Ebooks
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Old 05-13-2014, 04:38 AM   #108
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Originally Posted by Vmurph View Post
But paper + ink + glue = something I can legally sell on eBay or at a garage sale.
I can't plagiarize it, but I can sell it. eBooks that we purchase cannot be legally resold.
I'm working on that, actually...

Smashwords allows authors to use its stock license or write their own. I'm working on writing a license that would essentially amount to "treat it like a physical object" - that is, you're free to make backups for personal use, and you're free to give the book away or even sell it, but if you do transfer ownership, the license requires you to destroy any backups you may have made, or else transfer them to the new owner.

Note, as you point out above, that license and copyright are different; even with the above license, the author retains the copyright.
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