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Actually, we have some lawyers who earn extremely good money with admonishing downloaders (although that might be a little bit off-topic as it mostly regards downloaders of movies, sorry, John F).
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Spain. It's LEGAL, and the letter of the law says it. It's only illegal to upload it and keep the links if there's profit. Problem is: we pay a tax over printers, scanners, harddisks, CDs, phones, for our right to private copy. And uploads and downloads in Internet are covered by it. I don't tell if it is ethic or isn't. I tell it's legal, and that's the reason they keep on making law as patches: they don't want download but they want the taxes.
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I believe that what Shaggy was saying was that you asked what countries it's legal to download copyrighted books in. You didn't qualify it by saying "without the permission of the copyright holder". It is indeed legal to download copyrighted ebooks in every country if you have the copyright holder's permission to do so. |
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We must first define what a copy is. I would venture that simply creating a transient representation of a text onto a screen is not a copy, but printing out a text onto a semipermanent piece of paper is.
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Think of it this way. Pick any word at random and enter it into a google search. Now click on the first link that shows up in the list. The point being, you have no idea what content you're about to download and you have no idea who it's coming from.
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Here's another example. A customer buys an ebook from Amazon where the copyright is held by a third party Publisher. Who needs to get permission from the Publisher, Amazon or the customer?
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