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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
They give them the right to create a derivative work, i.e. a digital file representing the original work, which, as such, is protected by a separate copyright. You buy a license to access the Amazon's copy, and not the original work.
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Perhaps you should consult a lawyer? The only copyright on the body of say, J. D. Robb's latest book whether a pbook or an ebook belongs to Nora Roberts. Amazon's ebook version is not an original work and does not qualify for copyright protection. As for your claim that it is a derivative work, all the sources on this that I looked at had wording such as:
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In order to receive copyright protection, a derivative work must add a sufficient amount of change to the original work.
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The copyright for the derivative work only covers the additions or changes to the original work, not the original itself.
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So please let us know what changes Amazon makes to the original work to qualify them for a derivative copyright. And please note that while computer source code can be copyrighted depending on how much creativity can be claimed, computer/binary code has had a very poor record of success when copyright protection has been claimed.