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Old 09-25-2008, 02:10 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by acidzebra View Post
Do you think a reasonable case could be made for "pbook to ebook" from a consumer standpoint? For example, would it be "fair use" if I scanned/digitized a pbook I own myself (and of course didn't distribute it further)?
As you say, this is a classic example of fair use and it is generally thought to be legal in the US. What is not legal, as RWood said, is to download someone else's scanned/digitized version of the same book even though you own the pbook. This may seem to be a distinction without a difference, but that is the law and there has been at least one case like this for music where the downloader was held liable. Why anyone bothered to bring the case in the first place is a fair question, but sometimes legal proceedings have a momentum all their own.
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