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Originally Posted by darryl
@Harry. Yes, the license does also grant rights. However, a sale, particularly by rights owners themselves or by someone with the permission of the rights holder can also create such rights, usually by an express or implied license ancillary to the sale. In fact, a Court would quite likely hold that certain rights were implied by the sale so as to allow the purchaser to effectively use his or her purchase.
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I entirely agree with you, but it seems better to me that such rights should be explicitly granted in the licence, given that different countries have different domestic laws. I agree, though, that a reasonable person (which is the criterion used by British courts) would expect that if they bought an ebook, they were being granted sufficient rights to copy, etc, to allow them to actually read it.