sirbruce t1_jdu0t06 wrote
Reply to comment by Halaku in Internet Archive Loses Lawsuit Over Ebook Copyright Infringement. Here’s What to Know... by Halaku
Right call. Buying a physical book doesn't automatically give you an ebook lending license, let alone an infinite number of them.
Flimsy_Demand7237 t1_jdua9bf wrote
Would this apply if book is out of print? There's no way to buy the book from the publisher and for the publisher/author to make money.
mjfgates t1_jdw9z03 wrote
Not relevant in this case, but yes.
sirbruce t1_jdue471 wrote
The book being OOP may be exactly what the author or publisher wants. The right of copyright includes the right NOT to have your work sold.
Flimsy_Demand7237 t1_jdug64f wrote
Bye bye second hand books then haha!
Griffen_07 t1_jdul9ni wrote
No that is right of first sale. If you have a physical object it is yours to with as you please. You have the explicit right to resale it.
The issue is that that right goes away as soon as things go digital as you can’t prove who has the one true paid for copy.
pornplz22526 t1_jdvg60h wrote
Only if you're trying to sell a photo copy of the book...
sirbruce t1_jdykqg1 wrote
The right of first sale has nothing to do with the right not to print more copies.
lingenfr t1_jdwnmuc wrote
You would think that people in a books sub would have read at least one book and hence have a brain. Why do idiots here keep downvoting factually correct answers that at not antagonistic?
sirbruce t1_jdykyrk wrote
I'm more shocked that so many professed book-lovers are anti-author. Yes, I'm sure if you're a Cory Doctorow acolyte you hate copyright, but pretty much everyone else would find the majority of the authors they enjoy are lined up against the IA on this issue.
princetonwu t1_je3hjhm wrote
they're free-book lovers. they care about their ability to leech but not at all about the authors they read.
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