I was just reading a fiction I just came across this paragraph pertaining to copyright It says This book Is sold subject to the condition that It shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of blending or cover other than that In which this Is published and without a similar condition Including this condition being Imposed on the subsequent purchaser. (i belive all books has this ) I was totally shocked; the first thing that came to my mind was eBay, which sells lots of second hand books. There this act of eBay in aiding in a unlawful activity is also illegal?
ok this look at this as we know every product has something called resaler rights only when a person has this right can he sell that product . the same is applicable to books also. i was taliking abt ebay because it provides the bigest market for sale of second hand books
smartminds: What do you think that "other than that in which this is published" means? Think that through...
As will says, on this occasion it is not an issue because it is being resold as it was published. There are however items which do explicitly state the item should not be resold and there have, in the UK at least, been a number of high profile press articles about this and eBay. Generally the consense is that it is impractical for it to be fully policed by eBay. For whole sale breaches they will attempt to impliment something to prevent it but ultimately it is up to the owners of the rights to make eBay aware and they will then act appropriately. If they bar keywords in listings then things will just go down the same route as Napster did before they were closed down and people simply create "code words" for things to get round filters. It would take an army of people for every listing to be manually reviewed with another army of people scouring the internet for sites publishing the code words (which is why napster ultimately closed down)