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Hi Pitch;
It occurs to me that for all of the years that teachers have been photocopying parts of books to share with a class that they have in fact been abusing someone's copyright. It is a difficult issue to decide who actually owns a book, even a hard copy. You may own the material that it is made from but someone else still owns the words that are written inside. So I think that the issue of compliance with copyright by the academic world is a bigger issue than just e-book use.

Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 06:17:52 -0800
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Academic ebooks
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    Aloha, 

    

    On 11/5/2011 10:41 AM, janet ifimust wrote:

    

    
      
      Is that the case, if the ebook has been stored elsewhere?  Amazon
      can delete something from my kindle - but if I have managed to
      store it elsewhere, surely they would not be able to access it
      there?  On a pen drive, for example?

      

    
    

    There are a range of possibilities here, depending on both 

    technical matters and an ereader user's willingness to go 

    beyond the letter of registration and warranty and digital 

    rights agreements. 

    

    Ereader--wireless--devices check in with their hosting servers 

    whenever they are able. Periodic check ins may even be required 

    for the ereader device to function easily in the hosting network 

    (that is, too long without a check in may lead to having to 

    reset the device and/or re-register back into the network). 

    

    So if the user wants to get ebooks from the edistributor, 

    the ereader has to stay more or less updated in the hosting 

    network. And the ereader device is reminded again and again 

    to search for files that are not supposed to be accessible by 

    the device. And get rid of them. 

    

    Edistributors cannot get at files user's store on separate chips 

    or drives. But users probably need to access those files with 

    ereaders intentionally set to an off-line status, if the files are 

    out of compliance with the edistributor's conditions in any manner.
    

    And swap memory chips holding out of compliance files for 

    chips holding in compliance ones. Or take some other steps 

    to keep out of compliance files away from technical scrutiny. 

    

    Or users have to use other devices, like computers. 

    

    Reading and using the ebooks gets cumbersome. Users need 

    to swap chips in their ereader devices. Or switch among different 

    devices to access different (in compliance or out) files. 

    

    Ereader users who pay less attention to the strict requirements 

    of warranties, user registrations, and digital rights agreements 

    can, of course, find ways to use their devices in ways the 

    edistributors and authors and digital rights holders do not like. 

    

    Right now, I think that it's an open question how the academic 

    world looks at any out of compliance use or access of e-materials. 

    But I believe that, in cases involving physical printed materials,
    the 

    academic world upholds in compliance use and access. 

    

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    Rose,

    

    Pitch