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Originally Posted by wodin
Well lets see, I think one of the rules normalcy governing the sale of a book is if I pay for it it's mine.
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Your "ownership" of a paper book is actually rather limited in terms of what you're allowed to do with it. You can re-sell it or give it away, yes, but you can't make copies of it and sell those; you can't read it aloud and charge people admission to come and listen to you do so. You own the physical object - the paper, ink, and glue - but you have no rights whatsoever to the "contents" of the book as intellectual property.