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Pibbur Dragon the Righteous Superlative Retainer of Virtue wrote:
> Saw this note on amazon.co.uk:
> "Please note that customers in the US and Canada may be restricted to
one
> copy of certain book titles because multiple copies may infringe US
> copyright laws."
> It doesn't concern me, but I AM curious:: Illegal to buy more than
one
> copy of a book?
This is wild speculation on my part but it could be related to the fact
that different companies have the distribution rights for the same
book, movie etc. in different countries (many items say things like not
for sale outside the US for example). So many UK items are not licensed
for sale in the US. Perhaps Amazon UK can still sell such books and the
like to Americans (since the sale is not taking place in the US) but
not if it has reseason to believe the items will be resold in the US
and hence no multiple sales into the US. Canada can have the same or
different distrubtors for an item as the US or the UK (for example you
can buy both UK and American editions of Terry Prachett books) or we
can have our own distrobutions (seems to happen a lot with DVDs).
Perhaps because of geographic closeness (or due to Free Trade) Amazon
figures it has to cover itself for the possibility of licensing
infringement. If this is the reason I would have thought it would apply
to most countries but perhaps the US has particularly strict licensing
laws.
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