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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
However, copyright law does not prevent selling, sharing or giving away anything. It prevents *copies*. And derivatives, which are quasi-copies.
Most "sharing" of ebooks involves copies. So would most "sales." However, if you purchased ebooks, burned them to a disc (or downloaded them to a flash drive in the first place), and removed any copies from your hard drive, you should be legally able to sell, share, or whatever that disc. (At least, legally as far as copyright law is concerned. Amazon or Fictionwise's EULA is a different matter, and according to the new Myspace ruling you may be in violation of criminal law if you circumvent one of those.)
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The problem with selling an eBook is that yes, I can take some eBooks I own, put them on CD, sell them, and not have a single copy on my computer. But guess what? I can log back onto say Fictionwise or BooksOnBoard and download them all over again. Nothing to stop me from doing that.