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Originally Posted by kacir
If you borrow a paper book and make a private copy using copier machine and then return the book, is anybody going to kick down your door with a search warrant?
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Almost certainly not, but that doesn't make it legal or illegal. My guess is that most copyright lawyers would say that this was illegal and should a publisher find out about it, they could theoretically sue over it.
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If you make a copy of your favourite radio program on your cassette recorder for your own private use (like listening in your car while you commute) is the copyright police going to seize all your tapes?
If you record the latest episode of The Mentalist on a VHS tape so you could watch it privately when there is nothing on the telly are you breaking the law?
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In the United States at least, both of these cases are well covered by legal precedent. Making copies to shift from one format to another or from one time to another is considered fair use and is protected -- As would scanning a copy of your own book to make ebook edition.
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See? The Internet doesn't really change things that much.
In many jurisdictions the above copying would come under fair use rights.
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But those examples are very distinct from the original example, so are not good analogies.
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Bill