kevin wooldridge Wrote:No no no!! Surely not. If that were the case instead of making my P2P files freely available to friends, you suggest I sell them and evade copyright restrictions? No that can't be the case.....
No. Your file is the original. If you make that original available, it's still yours and any copies made will either be with your permission as the copyright holder or illegally. If you've lent it to friends, you still get the original files back, and those should be the only ones in existence. If they make a copy with your permission for their own use, they cannot sell that on, because it's a copy of the original and made with restrictions. If they make a copy without your permission, then they've broken the law and violated your copyright.
If you hold the copyright to the original P2P file that you're allowing someone to borrow, then you can sell the single, physical file. You can also sell copies, the same way an author does via a publisher. He owns the right to permit copies to be made for resale, so you could too if you hold the copyright to the files.
The resale of a paperback is different. It has a single physical existence, and when the purchaser is done, they may take that single book and sell it, give it away or whatever BUT they don't hold any rights to it so can't copy it and give copies away.
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