Is it permissible to buy textbooks from free online sources if the course instructor has requested that they be purchased from a specific place because he is the author, and what are the implications for a student who has previously done so?
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Whoever rightfully owns a copy of university textbooks may gift it to another without infringing on the author's rights, because he is gifting something he owns. He is not printing additional copies to gift, as that would be an infringement.
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