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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Your friend who loans you his CD also should make sure he has no other copies of it on his computer or DAP. if aid friend does, then it's not OK to loan the CD. While I have this CD in my possession, it is OK for me to rip it and put that rip on my DAP. But when I do go to give if back, that copy has to be deleted.
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I'd agree on that for moral correctness. But a fair number of experts speaking to a graduate seminar in IP issues think the scenario I gave is 'highly likely to be legal.'
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Now, is it fair use that since my DVD drive is busted, that I loan my CD to a friend who rips it for me and sends me the bits and then deletes the copy?
Also, could the same thing be done with a pbook? He has the book scanner and offers to scan my book for me, so I loan the book and get back the book and an electronic copy.
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According to those same experts the answer is that both of these examples are
not OK under fair use. And yes, I did ask pretty much exactly those questions. It seems that if they give you
the bits in any form other than 'on the physical disk you bought it with' they've stepped beyond fair use. These answers seem counter-intuitive to me, but there it is.
All speaking of US law and definitions of fair use, of course. And, of course, I Am Not A Lawyer and This Is Not Specific Legal Advice and all the rest of that hooey.
Xenophon