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Originally Posted by Ankh
That's just ... weird. So, it is OK for me (Canadian, accessing MR from Canada) to download every book on MobileRead, burn it to CD, then send it to a fellow in USA? It is the same thing as him bringing the copies in, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
it's legal for you to download, burn and send; it's Illegal for the US citizen to receive it...
(Welcome to the wonderful world of law!)
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I disagree. It's perfectly legal for him to receive the CD-ROM. No unauthorised copies have be made anywhere except where the works are in the public domain.
I believe that US case law also makes it legal for him to make temporary in-memory copies while reading the contents of the CD-ROM on his computer.
It may even be that case that once he legally owns a copy, he has fair-use rights to make a copy for use on an ebook reader.