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Originally Posted by HarryT
Surely you're breaking copyright law, aren't you? You bought the book, but both you and your mother have copies of it.
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The copyright information inside the books specifically allows making copies for personal use by the person who purchased the book.
I suppose there may be an issue about me being the purchaser and my mother being the reader, but there's the question of what "intended for personal use only" means - the copyright information inside the book does not specifically say "allowed to be
read only by the purchaser, whose name is on the watermark".
For all I know, "personal use" under these conditions may, in fact, extend to people in the purchaser's household, since otherwise children's ebooks would be an impossible concept - the purchaser and the reader
will be different people in the same household.
Also, all the copies made are made by me (the purchaser) and all copies made reside on devices technically belonging to me (my mother's iPad is technically mine) and physically situated in my home. I have a very hard time seeing how I'm breaking any law here, including copyright law, under the "allowed to make copies for personal use" conditions inside the books.