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Originally Posted by rbruce1314
Applying what Fluribus quoted, according to his first sentence all second-hand bookshops, Amazon, ebay books ARE illegal.
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His first sentence was "Buying a a book, used or not, does not give you the copyright." This is entirely true. You seem to be confused about what copyright means.
To own the copyright of a book means to own the legal monopoly on making copies of the book.
That is entirely different from owning a particular copy of a book and having the right to re-sell that particular copy.
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Originally Posted by rbruce1314
According to my understanding of that bit, if there's no difference, then the copyright law (printed inside each book) prevents you selling it on, new or second-hand. Or is that fluribus' whole point of being only the item itself that is covered?
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There's no such copyright law printed inside each book. Copyright law is law. It doesn't need to be put on every copy of something it applies to.
You may be thinking of the text often put in books something along the lines of "This book is sold under the condition that it shall not be lent or resold in any form of cover other than the original cover, and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on any subsequent purchaser"
This is nothing to do with copyright. It's an attempt to make the terms listed part of the contact of sale, and isn't to prevent resale in general, but to prevent resale of a book (particularly paperbacks) after a retailer has ripped off the covers and returned the covers to the publisher for credit.