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Originally Posted by nekokami
The fine print on a typical pbook: This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. Here's another: All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. Third example: All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
These were just taken from the first three books I picked up from the stack in my room. I don't know if you want to call this a "license," or some other restriction, but it's pretty clear that while you own the physical book, you don't own the right to reproduce the book.
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That is not a license statement so much as it is a strong wording of the copyright. It is understood that you can still reproduce the book in certain ways under fair use.
But most license statements remove any possibility of fair use exceptions as well as some of your rights over your property. Here is a critical part of the "Terms of Use" license agreement from Fictionwise:
All eBooks at Fictionwise.com are the exclusive property of the publisher or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The download of these product(s) is intended for the Fictionwise Member's personal and noncommercial use. Any other use of eBooks downloaded from Fictionwise.com is strictly prohibited. Users may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of these product(s), in whole or in part. By downloading Fictionwise eBooks, the User hereby acknowledges and agrees to these terms.
I'm too tired right now to parse this out. It should be clear what rights this agreement takes away.
After reading the license, the question that comes to my mind is:
How the f*** do they expect to enforce it?!?