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Originally Posted by whitearrow
Are you saying there is no concept of fair use in the EU? If you quote 4 paragraphs of a 300 page book in a blog post or academic paper, you are violating copyright?
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In the UK, you are permitted to copy one chapter of a book, or one article from a magazine, as "fair use". No more.
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You can't legally rip a CD you own to format-shift, or transfer a non-macrovisioned VHS tape to a DVD?
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Again in the UK, that is correct, you cannot legally do those things. I don't know if it's the same elsewhere in the EU or not. Of course, nobody is ever, or has ever, been prosecuted for it. But technically it's illegal.