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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sure that most people would think it entirely reasonable to allow anyone in your household to read your ebooks. It's when you start giving copies to friends and family who don't live with you that it gets dubious.
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Most right-thinking individuals should agree...
But I've seen copyright notices like this in ebooks:
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This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
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Granted, that is not the majority of copyright notices...but it is on enough that I notice and just shake my head at the lunacy.
Even more lunacy are statements like these:
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All right reserved. No part of this may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, distributed, stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form of by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, without express permission of the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes, if done so constitutes a copyright violation.
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Do they not realize that the simple act of loading an ebook from ANY service, or side-loading onto your reader, is a "transmission" and that they are by definition being "stored" or "introduced" into an information retrieval system?? The copyright statement itself does not provide "express permission" to do so...
Just pure lunacy - and they wonder why there is so much room for error and misinterpretation... or, unfortunately, just outright ignoring.
