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Old 12-03-2007, 02:22 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
There are mixed feelings on this forum (and elsewhere) on the legality or morality of acquiring digitizations from someone else for books one owns in paper, but that is a possibility in many cases.
There may be questions about its morality, but in most countries represented on this forum (with the notable exception of Switzerland) there's no doubt at all that downloading copyrighted material from the internet is illegal, and owning a paper copy of the book doesn't change that!

In many countries (eg the UK) it's even illegal to scan a book or rip a CD that you've bought.

The legality or otherwise of copying material for private use is a complex one. For some idea of the range of issues involved, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing

and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use
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