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Originally Posted by HarryT
I agree entirely that fair use allows for personal copying when you have a legitimate right to the original, but I would suggest that you would no longer have that right if the original were to regain copyright protection.
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If I 'buy' a free book from Amazon, and it later becomes a non-free book, I don't lose any rights in relation to it.
The PD copy was obtained legally (and in fact may well have been an Amazon freebie), what is the difference?
UK Copyright law provides: "It is not an infringement of the copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to copy or adapt it provided that the copying or adapting is necessary for his lawful use and (b) is not prohibited under any term or condition of an agreement regulating the circumstances in which his use is lawful".
That would seem to suggest that for a legally acquired file, transferring it to an eReader, which is necessary to be able to read it, would not be an infringement.