Nate,
You keep coming back to the issue of a "licences" and I'm not at all sure what you mean by the word. When I look in the dictionary, the most appropriate definition I find is:
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formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something
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Using this definition of the word, copyright law is what licenses you certain, rather restricted, rights as far as what you can legally do with either a paper book or an eBook.
What do you mean by the word "license"? We can't meaningfully talk about it unless we know that we are both talking about the same thing!