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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That goes back to the whole "license vs sale" question, which US courts have already answered.
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I'm not American, and I'm not a lawyer (thanks goodness), but I believe you can still find software licenses where you actually buy some (time-limited or not) access to online material, and not the material itself.
In the University I have access to online scientific journals, and I can freely (I assume the University pays a subscription) download PDFs of the articles that interest me, but I don't think I can sell the PDFs once I've read them, even if I promise not to download them again.
Now, I don't say the situation with ebooks is the same, but I'm sure it's not so clear-cut.