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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
Most books have a limit on how much you can highlight, for the Kindle, at least. This is, I believe, because of "fair use" restrictions. A copy of your highlights is made in "My Clippings", so that you can edit it, copy it to other files, etc. Publishers don't want to allow unlimited cut and paste of pieces of the book.
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I don't get that sort of thinking. So, instead of hammering down on people actually publishing "too much", let's make everyone a criminal, before they even consider it.
So, in reality, if you have a subscription to a magazine or newspaper, and you find a note you want to copy/paste, you can only copy, say, 60 percent of it? That note is copyrighted too. Or if you want to collect articles about a given subject, then that has to be impossible as well, assuming they do it consequently on all copyrighted material.
It's like saying in the physical world, that you're not allowed to make clippings of full articles, only parts thereof. Where as I understand it, the law deals with the actual publishing of "too much".
This is what you get when you have lawmakers making it illegal to even circumvent the DRM even if you're not otherwise doing anything illegal.
