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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
This is a most frustrating area of law, in part because it is a most frustrating area of moral definition.
Fair use exists, but proving it was fair use could be difficult.
For example. I am in the US, so US law applies (I hope). I rip a legally purchased CD that is in my possesion. So far legal, with case law to back me up now. If I then sell, or otherwise dispose of the original CD by, say shred, or lose it in a fire, did I suddenly become a criminal? No answer.
Another example, I buy a legal copy of an e-book. 10 years later, how can I prove I bought it and not "pirated" it? Especially if "pirated" copies of the purchased e-book (bit identical) are in existance? No answer.
Third example, I scan a copyrighted book into an e-book. I use a paperback that I tear apart to facilitate the scanning. Do I have to keep the loose pages to provide proof I own a physical copy of the book? No answer.
That's the problem today. Most of the digital copyright questions end up in No Answer.
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In the first example, you're a thief as long as you don't destroy every single copy you made.
In the second example, if you don't keep for the rest of your life a receipt with the book, you're treated as a thief (so long with presumption of innocence).
In the third case, you're also a vandal, not only a thief. You have to keep the PB with the electronic copy. If you tear pages apart, you can't. So you're not allowed to rip and scan a book, unless you own another integral copy of it.
Those are the answers
IFPI would give you.
IMHO, you'd have to pay separately for the paper and for the content. You'd have unlimited lifetime access for the content, no matter the device you want. You'll pay for the CD, the bandwith, the paper and ink, the loud reader and sound engineer for each copy.
But to pay authors and publishers per copy is an obsolete nonsense.