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Originally Posted by John F
Just curious, but has this been tested in court? I can see copyright applying, but I thought that once garbage is placed on the curb/dump, it is "public property" (from TV crime shows  ? So if I am at the dump, and I take some books without covers (our dump allows garbage picking), have I broken a law? When I read it? When I sell it? |
Not sure if I has ever been tested. Now yes, you may take all the books you want out of the dumpster. You may read them all you want. No laws broken there.
No one has ever been taken to court because you would have to have proof the new seller, got them out of the dumpster and is reselling them. I know a second hand bookstore that did just that but no one bothered with her because she was selling them for a dime.
Once her sources dried up here, she went to a quarter. (I figure this is for the gas to go to the nearest bookstore dumpster.
But then, that is a most people don't know or care why a book doesn't have a cover especially those that are cheap readers. Cheap as in price they will pay.