Thread: EU vice-president: Copyright legislation is “pushing people to steal”
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Old 06-11-2015, 07:57 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Amazon UK only sell ebooks to people in the UK. Amazon employ sufficient lawyers to ensure that this is not illegal, I'd guess. Penguin are of course free to set different prices in different national bookstores. This happens all the time.
And EU citizens are free to buy from any bookstore in the EU.

The problem is that EU citizens are not currently able to buy from any ebookstore in the EU.

Whether this is currently legal or illegal, it seems to me that it's clearly against the spirit of the EU. And that the EU lawmakers should be working to make it illegal. One way would be to state that anyone authorised to sell ebooks in one EU state thereby also has permission to sell to anyone in any other EU state. Legislation can and often does override contract terms.
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