Thread: Re-selling DRMed ebooks: Legal or not?
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Old 07-02-2009, 05:32 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It does in the sense that, if you lend someone a paper book that you've bought, then you are lending them the original item. You're doing the same thing if you lend them your physical e-book reader with an eBook on it. If, however, you make a copy of an eBook and "lend" them that, then you are violating copyright law by making an unauthorised copy. It would be like lending a friend a photocopy of a paper book - something which I think that everyone would agree is a copyright violation. You are permitted to make photocopies, but only for personal use.
Suddenly, Farenheit 451 comes to mind...

Learning a book by heart and reciting it may bring you to jail: it's an unauthorised copy.
No firemen burning them, though; just corporation taking money from us.
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