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Originally Posted by HarryT
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (arbiters of the various international IP treaties) disagrees with you. From their website:
Note the "literary works" bit. A book is most assuredly IP, and the laws that govern IP, such as copyright law, define what you are and are not allowed to do with it. It's a lot more than just copy it. You can't, for example, give a public performance of it (eg stand on a street corner and read it out loud). You own the paper, ink, and glue and, as you say, you can do pretty much what you want with those. You have extremely limited rights when it comes to the actual contents of the book (that is, the "intellectual property"). With an ebook, there is no tangible object - no paper, ink, or glue - so intellectual property is all that you have. IP laws are therefore central to discussions of what can or can't be done with ebooks.
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No, they don't disagree with me. You just said that I own the book, which is what I said. I don't own a license to read the book whenever the copyright owner wants to let me, I own the book and can read it whenever and where ever I wish. I own the ebook as well.
Giving a public performance is mentioned explicitly as a derivative work.
Once again, I point out that US law is different than European law which is different than Chinese law which is different than Russian law.