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A possibly stupid question on eBooks
« on: April 13, 2015, 06:33:02 PM »
This forum seemed best for asking this. I realize it may be a stupid question. I have searched for an answer and have yet to receive a response but I thought someone might know, as it may affect my purchases:

If one owns an eBook is he or she allowed to print it for his or her own personal use or is the use of some kind of eReader or device required?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: A possibly stupid question on eBooks
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2015, 06:46:07 PM »
Here's the Black Library legalese.

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eBook license

This license is made between:

Games Workshop Limited t/a Black Library, Willow Road, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 2WS, United Kingdom (“Black Library”); and

(2) the purchaser of an e-book product from Black Library website (“You/you/Your/your”)

(jointly, “the parties”)

These are the terms and conditions that apply when you purchase an e-book (“e-book”) from Black Library. The parties agree that in consideration of the fee paid by you, Black Library grants you a license to use the e-book on the following terms:

* 1. Black Library grants to you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the e-book in the following ways:

o 1.1 to store the e-book on any number of electronic devices and/or storage media (including, by way of example only, personal computers, e-book readers, mobile phones, portable hard drives, USB flash drives, CDs or DVDs) which are personally owned by you;

o 1.2 to access the e-book using an appropriate electronic device and/or through any appropriate storage media; and

* 2. For the avoidance of doubt, you are ONLY licensed to use the e-book as described in paragraph 1 above. You may NOT use or store the e-book in any other way. If you do, Black Library shall be entitled to terminate this license.

* 3. Further to the general restriction at paragraph 2, Black Library shall be entitled to terminate this license in the event that you use or store the e-book (or any part of it) in any way not expressly licensed. This includes (but is by no means limited to) the following circumstances:

o 3.1 you provide the e-book to any company, individual or other legal person who does not possess a license to use or store it;

o 3.2 you make the e-book available on bit-torrent sites, or are otherwise complicit in ‘seeding’ or sharing the e-book with any company, individual or other legal person who does not possess a license to use or store it;

o 3.3 you print and distribute hard copies of the e-book to any company, individual or other legal person who does not possess a license to use or store it;

o 3.4 You attempt to reverse engineer, bypass, alter, amend, remove or otherwise make any change to any copy protection technology which may be applied to the e-book.

So you can store it, print it, move it around, read it on other devices and so forth. What you shouldn't do is give it to anyone else to do any of that. Also note you don't technically own the ebook as much as have leased it.
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Re: A possibly stupid question on eBooks
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2015, 07:50:56 PM »
So I guess printer paper is a storage medium.

Thanks for the quick response.
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