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Originally Posted by HarryT
In other words, suppose I made a photocopy of a book which was out of copyright in my own country, and sent you that photocopy, when the book was in copyright in your country. Would you be guilty of copyright infringement by accepting it? I think that in most countries you probably would be.
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No, I think I would not be guilty since this falls under the laws that allows you to give a copy of a book to a friend. I see this situation as exactly like the one of downloading. The method to distribute the information does not matter and who initiated the distribution does not matter either.