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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Any piracy statistics in the US ??
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.031609.7097@shaman.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 03:16:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.205146.3372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun24.205146.3372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> chappell@symcom (Glenn  
Chappell) writes:
> Except that book companies typically sell books, not licenses to use
> them.


   I would think that with the copyright restrictions on the text, you
actually only own the physical media (the book pages, cover) and only
have a license to "use" the book (i.e. read it).
   You don't "own" the book in the sense that you are not free to do
with it as you please -- ie. photocopy it and give it to all your
friends. A book is effectively a single-user/single-copy licensed
media.


   - jiro nakamura
     jiro@shaman.com
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