Thread: What are your views on illegal copying?
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Old 02-24-2010, 12:40 PM   #320
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Originally Posted by amgoforth View Post
What is the difference between paying 25 cents for a book at a thrift shop or library sale or giving a friend books for free because I have finished reading them, or downloading it for free. Either way the author only gets paid ounce. I am worried though because if books can be copied that easy in digital form then maybe it will not be worthwhile to write them anymore.
See the many previous discussions of the "first sale doctrine" (the U.S. legal name for the concept) or "Exhaustion of Rights" (the E.U. name for the concept). A search either here or on wikipedia might be very instructive...

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