What to do if you bought an illegal e-book collection

okay probably will not contact you, if you purchased a CD or DVD that contains copyright infringing copies of e-books. okay doesn't even contact the rights owners - the authors.Why should you be concerned if you purchased a CD or DVD loaded with thousands of popular, modern e-books? For one thing, you bought the CD or DVD in good faith, believing that the Seller had the legal rights to sell you those e-books. What if he didn't have that right? Unfortunately, the instant you download those e-books from the CD onto your geputer, you have begee a copyright infringer, too. You have unwittingly created another unauthorized copy, for which the author was not paid.When you buy something, you have a reasonable expectation that you own it, and can do what you please with it. This doesn't quite apply to e-books. You are not entitled to copy them or publish them or perform them. If you bought a collection of several thousand e-books in the expectation that you could repackage them, and sell them. You cannot. If you do, you could be sued.You might reasonably expect that --if the e-books are shareware (GNU licensed) or "public domain"-- that you can do your friends a favor and "share" these books. What if the Seller lied? What if the books are actually snagged from a pirate site? What if they are not GNU (GNU items generally cannot be sold, anyway), and not public domain? If the author is alive and has a website, or even a VERO page, her books are not in the public domain. Check out the front matter, the boring small print, at the front of any legally sold e-book. It states who owns the copyright, and the date of the copyright. There is also a statement such as "all rights reserved" which means that no one but the author, or someone with a signed contract with the author may copy or sell that book. Some e-books point out that the penalty for copyright infringement can be as much as 5 years in prison, and/or a fine of $250,000.The wise thing to do, if you innocently purchased a collection of e-books and realize upon receipt of the DVD that it's probably copyright infringing is to open a dispute with okay and demand your money back.That's smart because You get your money back. Your geplaint is on record, and proves that you are innocent of copyright infringement.As a rule of thumb, if a multi-author book on CD collection looks too good to be true, it probably is.