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Originally Posted by HarryT
Copyright law says "you can't copy it without the permission of the copyright holder". That would make the ebook unusable, because the very process of reading an ebook involves copying it. You copy it when you download it from the bookstore. The licence grants you rights above and beyond those granted by copyright law to actually allow you to read the book.
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I think that fair use comes in here. I disagree that I need the terms of a licence to make copies of the electronic books I've bought, if the copies are incidental to reading the book.
I suspect that eventually this will be codified explicitly in some new laws.