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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Piracy is piracy, even if you like the people doing it.
They are creating and distributing copies of copyright works without the permission of the copyright holder. That is what piracy is.
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Exactly.
No license.
The Random House vs Rosetta lawsuit is very telling because the Court found RH did not explicitly list ebooks as a format they were licensing the content for. Thus that license remained with the author. RH was arguing for an implied ebook license derived from the pbook license.
There is also the (obvious) understanding that when you buy a physical book (or CD, DVD, whatever) you buy the object (hence the first sale rule) but not the content (hence the long-standing prohibition of reproduction via photocopy, etc).
Call it piracy, call it whatever: plain fact is they have no license to create an ebook edition much less lend it out. And they need need that license: if the publisher that paid for the rights to the print edition needs an explicit license to create an ebook, surely IA can't conjure one up of nothing.
(EXPECTO LICENTIA?!)
