Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec...
by chiefalchemist on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:19PM
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I'd have to check but I'm not so sure you're buying, in the traditional sense, either of them. In modern legal terms, you are paying a fee for the rights to access that work in that format.
It used to be you'd purchase a print book, you'd own it, and you could do whatever you wanted with it (e.g., resell it, burn it). That's not the case anymore. You can't resell it, not because of the format, but because you don't own it in the first place.
I'm not a legal expert, and I know it might sound like I'm parsing words, but I feel there's some validity to my 50k feet assessment.
It used to be you'd purchase a print book, you'd own it, and you could do whatever you wanted with it (e.g., resell it, burn it). That's not the case anymore. You can't resell it, not because of the format, but because you don't own it in the first place.
I'm not a legal expert, and I know it might sound like I'm parsing words, but I feel there's some validity to my 50k feet assessment.