IANAL, but lets try to figure this out. The wikipedia article of the Berne Convention says this, regarding what is required to be protected by copyright https

IANAL, but lets try to figure this out. The wikipedia article of the Berne Convention says this, regarding what is required to be protected by copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#The_minimum_standards_of_protection_relate_to_the_works_and_rights_to_be_protected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#The_minimum_s... The first one: you can’t put the book on the same bookshelf as that of my rival seems part of the right to communicate to the public the performance of such works, so it seems an author can forbid a shop to do this. I assume the performance of the work is the reading of the book here. This would imply a user may put the books on the same shelf at home, unless that user takes a picture of it and put that picture on the Internet for everyone to see. This would be insane, but in my experience a strict reading of copyright law gets insane quickly, so in practice you'll need to convince a judge of the merit of the case. The second one: you can’t read the book while flying a particular airline seems to be a right of the reader that can't be blocked . Unless you start to read it aloud for everyone of the plane. Translating, etc... is a protected right, so a copyright holder might forbid reading the book on a plane if you are doing the reading as preparation for a translation etc... And that's only the Berne convention. Isn't copyright nice.