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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Sorry; I forgot. I did know exemptions for time/format shifting had been made--none of which seem to specifically require keeping the original.
In the case of "record a radio/tv show," you don't have the original at all. You're making a copy to keep of something you legally have temporary access to. The same argument could be made for scanning a library book in order to read it on an ereader, or because you read slowly enough that the standard loan period isn't long enough. (E.g. reading it aloud for a sick relative.)
And the right to record sound hasn't been extended to the right to record text, although some recent rulings imply that it would be, if that particular issue ever went to court.
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Under UK copyright law, you're only legally allowed to record a TV programme for purposes of "time shifting", after which you're supposed to delete it but, rather curiously, that's not the case with radio programmes; you can record those and keep them forever, perfectly legally, for personal, non-commercial use. Radio drama is still alive and well on BBC Radio, and I've accumulated a very large radio drama collection which I listen to on my iPhone in the car.
See:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyr...gdom#section_5
As you rightly say, though, none of that applies to books.