Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate the great
And yes, you can resell an ebook. There is no real market for them yet, but you can still legally do it.
|
Really?? Look at all the eBay cases involving software and how they turned out.
I do not doubt that you can TRY to resell ebooks - again I am talking about current copyrighted ones - but make sure you have a lawyer and deep pockets when the publishers will sue you. You may even win - some software eBay resellers won after all - but...
With a print book, I can list it on Amazon in under a minute for free and nobody is going to complain. Actually I even sold 3 or 4 used books on Amazon until I decided it's too much bother.
Regarding copyright, licensing and such, I agree with you that copyright is not perpetual ownership - knock on wood 3 times though, the way things are going - but it is a long term - getting longer - de facto ownership.
But nothing is perpetual ownership anyway since form of governments tend to go away across the centuries, laws change, so even countries change hands across centuries. At life + whatever is now (50, 75 yrs??) copyright is lasting more than quite a few systems of governments or countries
Sure the government may wave a wand tomorrow and decide all works go PD, but they may take your private property too also with a hand wave.