[LMB] Copyright (WAS: AKICOTL Usenet for a Dummy?)

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- "James M. BRYANT G4CLF" <james at jbryant.eu> wrote:

> The implied contract when you buy a book is that
> you may read it as many times as you like, and
> lend it to your friends (but not commercially).

You can resell it: that's commercial. I've yet to hear of any restrictions on selling books to
second-hand bookstores or giving them to libraries.

I think people have, with our new technology, become very squeamish about what they can and cannot
do.  In the particular circle of this list, I see a lot of people buying extra copies, getting
copies in different media (i.e., ebooks, audio-books, hardcovers, paperbacks) and getting the
books as gifts for friends, I don't think we have to suffer bad consciences in this regard.

namaste,
Elizabeth