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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Well my view is that as a buyer I can use the ebook in any way I like consistent with the laws of the land, but as a licensee I am additionally subject to the conditions of the licence (provided those conditions are themselves lawful.)
Obviously the ebook retailers themselves see a difference, otherwise why would they put something like this in their terms and conditions?
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You need the licence, because it grants you the rights you actually need to read the book. If you were governed purely by the law of the land, for example, then assuming that NZ copyright law is similar to that of the UK, you wouldn't be able to read the book because the act of transferring it from your PC to a reading device would be a breach of copyright (you're creating an extra copy of the book). The licence is what grants you that right. Eg, in Amazon's case the licence grants you the right to "view, use, and display such Kindle Content an unlimited number of times". Without that right, you couldn't copy it to any device other than the one on which you originally downloaded it.