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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Technically, it was illegal to make a cassette tape copy of a vinyl album years ago, but I don't know of anyone who was sued for doing so. You did it to have a copy you could play in your car, and to make your own mixes, and to give to other people. No one really cared.
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In what country? I'm pretty sure that format shifting for personal use has been legal for a pretty long time, at least in the US. Making copies to give to other people is different though.
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But come on...books get passed around. You buy it and read it, then give it to your spouse, who loans it to a friend, who never returns it and ends up putting it in a yard sale or selling it for a few cents to a used book store, and it gets purchased and given away and loaned out and donated to a library for a fund-raising sale, etc. etc. etc. And the only money the author and publisher make is for that first sale
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Everything in that example is perfectly legal, but has nothing to do with copyright. Loaning/selling/giving away the original is a lot different from making/distributing copies.