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Originally Posted by HarryT
It does indeed very badly need to be fixed. There is a proposal, which has the backing of the British Phonographic Industry, to legalise the backing up and format shifting of CDs, etc, and that would presumably also apply to eBooks.
I knew that making a personal copy of a book was permitted in the US, but I'm really surprised to hear from zerospinboson that one is permitted to retain the copy after selling the original.
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Since there is no "original" file, I wonder what happens if someone sells the second copy also...
I'm pretty sure he breaks the law almost everywhere...
After all these pages about it, I'm sure that "copy"right for digital media is a nonsense.
In the digital world, a "per copy"-based business is definitely untenable. There's no way to efficiently control "copies". And to try to make laws to enforce it it's too dangerous...