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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Yet in the US, it doesn't quite work that way. It is legal to buy a used book. You got no extra money.
Ok. the copyright was transferred. Yet if I disassemble the book, and scan and proof it, for my own use, and the destroy the original, did I violate the copyright? I had one copy in physical format, now I have one copy in virtual format. One copy, either way. Does format shifting count as copyright violation?
Lots of possibilities. . .
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When you buy a book you do not get the copyright. Why is this so hard to understand? The physical book is yours, the copyright to the story in the book is a completely different thing. You cannot photo copy all the pages and the give that copy of the book away.
In the digital world where copying is so easy you aren’t even buying the file. You are listening the right to read that file...and not the right to copy and give it away. You can’t even give an ebook away and destroy your copy of the file. You don’t get the right to transfer the license. There is no such thing as a used ebook.
But even with all that extra complications with digital goods....the copyright is separate...and is the property of the author or whoever the author sells the copyright to