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Old 05-02-2013, 10:21 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by pidgeon92 View Post
There might not be a moral restriction, but they still don't want you making copies of copyrighted material. I picked up one of the few physical books I still own off a shelf, and opened it to the copyright page. This is what it says:
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No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Apparently, you can't even read it, because that would unquestionably be to "use" it, so all you could do is buy it - they don't mind that part - and then put it unopened on the shelf, provided, of course that you do not put it on top of something as that could be interpreted as "using" it to hold that something down. So, if you actually opened and read that book which you are quoting, then you violated the very paragraph that you quoted. In fact, "using" it to quote that paragraph here would be a violation in itself. Silly, isn't it? :-) Of course, if this is a critical article or review...

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