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Originally Posted by Pardoz
[on "natural light only"]Sure. Good luck to her on enforcing that, though.
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Actually, no. She can't enforce that on the end user because there's no contract involved in retail purchase. So there's no way to impose contract terms on the end user. 1st sale doctrine.
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Originally Posted by Pardoz
If she puts that in her contract, and the publishers want to sell her book badly enough, you bet.
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Yes, here, because she
does have a contract with the publishers.
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Originally Posted by Pardoz
Of course. Mind, that would just result in (even more) people reading pirate (NB: not file-shared. Pirate.) editions, but it's a perfectly legal demand to make.
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And yes here, too. On both the contract front, and the likely effect of such a contractual provision.
Xenophon