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Originally Posted by crich70
True, but I'd guess that it could set a precedent that other countries could follow in the future, and some aspects of copyright law are international even though different countries have different lengths of copyright protection after the author has died, so I could see other courts in different countries following or not following the Dutch judge's lead.
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This has nothing to do with copyright law: it's a matter of tort law - contract law.
When you purchase an ebook from a bookstore, you're purchasing a personal licence to read it, and the contact you're entering into with the bookstore says that the licence cannot be transferred to another person. What the Dutch court has essentially done is to say that this contract is invalid, and that the licence is in fact transferable. It's not a copyright issue.