If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the "first sale" doctrine. Digital books, music and movies are a different story though. Four students at Columbia Law School's
Science and Technology Law Review looked at the particular issue of reselling and copying e-books downloaded to Amazon's Kindle or the Sony Reader, and came up with answers to a fundamental question: Are you buying a crippled license to
intellectual property when you download, or are you buying an honest-to-God
book?
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Korean company Neolux has brought out the Nuutbook, a rather sexy e-book. Designed around six-inch e-paper, the Nuutbook lets you read 7,500 pages on a single charge and supports over 1,000 books. Gallery and more info below.
