Thread: When is Sony's DRM going to be broken?
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Old 09-05-2007, 07:44 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
They are different things entirely.

Changing the format of an eBook is not doing something to the eBook file (which you equally own), but is changing the contents of that file. In copyright terms, you are creating a "derived work", and you cannot do that without the permission of the copyright holder. After converting the content, you have two files - the original and the converted one. Compare that to rebinding a book, where you are doing things to the original only.
Please explain how changing from LIT to LRF alters the content. I do not see how changing an ebook from one file format to another is any more a derived work that cutting down a trade paperback to make it a massmarket paperback.

I do agree that you end up with two files. That is the one part that would cripple my argument if not for the fact that there is little established law on this point. The closest precedent that I can find is the accepted right to make a archival copy of software. If you designate the original as the archival copy, then the format conversion is almost certainly legal.
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