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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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But at the same time doesn't that interfere with the publisher's right to be the source of said book? I mean the author holds the copyright (unless it's a series character that multiple author's write for under a pen name) but then the author has a contract to publish with publisher x as the source of copies of the book and then comes someone else who has a used copy to sell that takes revenue from the publisher and author by reselling a used ebook. And unlike paper you have to take it on their honor that that is the only copy of that book that is sold.