From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Hyman Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again Date: 21 Oct 2005 11:19:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1129918793.065783.214240@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> References: <1129902844.300659.188970@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.248.208 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1129918798 23916 127.0.0.1 (21 Oct 2005 18:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:19:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=204.253.248.208; posting-account=lJDDWg0AAACmMd7wLM4osx8JUCDw_C_j Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5863 Date: 2005-10-21T11:19:53-07:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > Certainly you can. Harper & Row does that all the time after > they buy a book from the author. They don't buy a book. They buy the right to make copies, which otherwise is restricted to the copyright holder. In many cases the contract specifies circumstances under which the publisher will lose that right and it will revert back to the author. > Perhaps you are thinking of "sell a copy of a book". No. When I go to a bookstore and make a purchase, no one makes a copy of a book. There are piles and cases of books available, and I pick one up and buy it.