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Do You Really Own That E-Book?

By John Dermody, Travis Hodgkins, and Nema Milaninia

"Control At A Distance" is a very interesting article over at Balkinization about Amazon.com using the internet to delete copies of George Orwell's books 1984 and Animal Farm from various people's Kindles after learning that the publisher did not want to grant the rights to Kindle. Jack Balkin cleverly points out that "the irony of deleting a book about Big Brother watching you was lost on both the publisher and Amazon.com." He also makes the following commentary: "For centuries, we have understood, or rather believed, that owning books came with certain rights, including the right to keep what we purchase...

Full post as published by Transnational Law Blog on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).