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You say you can do whatever you want with a physical book, but you cannot - you are still restricted by the state from making copies of that book. You cannot ta
by zanny 9y ago
You say you can do whatever you want with a physical book, but you cannot - you are still restricted by the state from making copies of that book. You cannot take passages from that book and reuse them as your own, unless given permission by the author.
It is still not wholly your own property. It depends on the mires of the draconian copyright system, but there are things I can buy and then duplicate - if I buy a generic pill of a drug, I am fully within my right to use that pill to produce more pills like it, and nobody can sue me for infringing their IP.
Probably the scariest thing is that probably none of us can even reasonably conceive of how the world would be without this spectre hanging over everything. It influences our brain development extraordinarily fundamentally to contextualize that nothing we interact with is truly our own to learn from, because someone else almost always owns the idea behind it.
- jasonkostempski 9y ago"you are still restricted by the state from making copies of that book" Is that true or can you just not sell the copies? "You cannot take passages from that book and reuse them as your own, unless given permission by the author." Again, pretty sure that's only when selling things.
- Silhouette 9y agoIt depends on where you are. In the US, some activities like this might fall under fair use, and therefore be legal. In much of the rest of the first world, the ways in which you can copy or share a work under copyright are specifically listed in the laws, and the mere act of making the copy might itself be an infringement. However, also in those places outside the US, non-commercial infringement is typically a civil matter and you'd only be on the hook for actual damages, which might be zero or close to it in the cases you described anyway.
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