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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Are you saying she refused to accept the money that was sent to her in compensation? I'm pretty sure she actually made a deliberate and conscious choice not to have an electronic edition published.
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Yes. Now, given modern darknets, that means that either she was aware this simply meant she was passing up a good deal of compensation for her work or she's being deliberately ignorant.
I am not calling it either, way, just saying...
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
As to publishers "taking rights," so far I have yet to see any rulings that require that digital content must be transferrable, for example
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Mm-hum. In the UK, it's as resellable (and for that matter, returnable under the Distance Selling Regulations) as
anything else you purchase. There are exemptions to those rights, but they're quite specific - and eBooks are *not* legally either Software or Audio or Video Recordings.
Also, it dosn't matter *what* Amazon were thinking over the 1984 incident. Non-willful copyright infringement simply has lower fines.