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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
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..
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Well, it is a bit of a gray area. When you are selling software, you are generally doing two things... 1) Transferring the license 2) Transferring the media. Since you give someone the CD with the software on it, when you sell it, you are NOT making a copy of it.
But, when you sell an eBook you must "copy" it. Since you don't have the permission to copy (a copyright) then you are violating copyright to sell it. Actually, if you want to be anal about it, when you "copy" the ebook from your PC to your reader you are violating the "copyright" but that would certainly fall under fair use.
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