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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
ChrisC333 - UK and EU law is quite plain. If it's advertised as a sale, sold like a sale, and has a "sale" button? It's a sale. Ebooks as-sold by Amazon and other web stores are a sale.
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So? A sale is a sale. Are you suggesting that the word "sale" has some special meaning in UK law? If so could you provide a link to the relevant law(s). It would be interesting to read and see how it applies to books.
I don't live in the UK, but here we use the term "sale" to describe all manner of transactions. You can sell an object or you can sell a licence. Some licences can be transferred or resold but many can't. You can also sell services and you can sell various types of rights. There are also numerous categories in which you may sell something that is a blend of physical object and entitlements. Strata titles for dwellings is one example. Most sales may also carry some form of restrictions or obligations regarding your use of whatever you have paid for. There seem to be no specific set of conditions implied by the word "sale" here.
Just to keep this on the lighter side, I might suggest that you could sell your virginity on Ebay (it has been done apparently) but the buyer would have a hard time reselling it second hand.
(I was going to say that you couldn't put a 'virginity' in a box to post it, but that might have been misinterpreted in some countries...
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