[Steve_Seattle]

I'm wondering if there are any implications in this for the used-book industry? It seems to me there is a difference between selling a used book and music downloading, but I'm not sure if I can explain it. If I sell my copy of "Treason" to Half-Price Books for a dollar, and they re-sell it for five dollars, is that different from downloading music from the Internet? In both cases, the publisher/music company does not benefit from the sale of their material to a secondary buyer. But I have never seen this issue raised with regard to used books.

[sharkhawk]

It's actually really simple. You bought the book, read it, and are passing on the book. You do not have current use of the book. The same thing happens with CD's, you can sell the CD itself, you cannot copy the book or the CD without breaking copyright laws.