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Originally Posted by Harmon
This is an instance where the legal outcome and the ethical outcome are the same, because the law defers to the ethics of the situation. In both situations, the basic question is whether a person who has violated an ethical duty ("don't make copies") can assert an ethical claim ("you owe me for the work I did making the copies") against the person he has wronged. The answer is framed in terms of the copier not having "clean hands." Since the copier does not have clean hands, he cannot impose an ethical obligation on the author whose rights he has violated.
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I was talking about the ethical claim of the writer.
But tell me this: what happens if the one who digitized the book wasn't the same person that uploaded it? If they did the work for personal use, and someone took it and posted it, would it still be OK for the writer to make use of this work?