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Originally Posted by Requiem
Ok I guess I need to explain that the capitalization is an emphasis. It is about the work put into it by B&N, hence the capitalized THEIR. And redistributing that IS piracy.
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Depends on how you define "the work put into it by B&N". My impression of your previous post was that you were referring to things like formatting/distributing. Those things are not copyrightable in the US, so there is no such thing as "pirating" such an eBook. Yes, they cost the company money, but that's a risk they accept when they are deciding whether or not there is a business case for selling PD material. Just because a company spends money to format and distribute something doesn't mean that they have any protection in the law. Copyright doesn't cover the cost of doing business, it covers new original artistic works.
If you are talking about new artistic material added to the original content, then yes, that new material would be copyrighted and protected. I didn't think that's what you meant though.