Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> What one buys is the book, which is the media prepared by the printer > > But that's not what King sells to publishers and not what he was > selling on the net in The Plant experiment. Intangibles can also be > sold, retard.
You'll find that he does not sell the content itself (though he'll pass on a manuscript in the course of the sale), but rights to print said contents, made explicit in a contract. Again, there is a difference between media and content. You can't buy the content since it is not tangible. And buying the manuscript is not tantamount to buying publishing rights (manuscripts are actually bought and sold as memorabilia, too, impressed with the contents, but without rights to the contents). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
