: Re: What rights do I have to eBooks I purchase in the U.S.A. as a U.S. citizen? Is there a government or industry site or document that specifies eBook rights? Examples of what I'd like to know

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eBooks are not protected by the DMCA. All eBooks are protected by copyright law; eBooks with copy protection (DRM) are in addition copied by the DMCA. eBooks usually come with a license that will often allow you to do things that go beyond copyright law; copy protection may prevent you from doing things that either copyright law or license would allow to do you and obviously may prevent you from making illegal copies. DMCA makes it illegal to get around copy protection, no matter whether the copy would otherwise be legal or illegal.

Without any license: Copyright law doesn't allow you to make any copies. Usually there is a license which allows you to make certain copies.

With a license: You are allowed to do what the license says, and that's different from license to license. Usually a license will allow you to copy onto some number of devices and possibly only certain devices that you own and control for non-commercial use. If copy protection prevents a copy, then DMCA makes it illegal to get around this.

Members of your household may use devices that you own or not. A license that allows to make copies for members of your household is unusual.

When you die... Depends on the license. But really, this is not tested in any court as far as I know, and nobody really knows. I don't think inheritance is legally the same as receiving a present or purchasing, so it could be that the heir just inherits the role of the deceased. Unfortunately, I suspect that my heirs wouldn't be that much interested in the eBooks that I own :-(

By the way, I doubt that your nationality makes any difference.

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