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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Fair use" laws vary dramatically from country to country. From what I understand of their respective laws, in the US it perhaps is fair use, but in the UK, at the current time at least, it is assuredly not (just as buying a CD and then ripping it to your iPod is, at the current time, illegal in the UK).
Whatever fair use might say, downloading a pirated ebook sure as heck isn't  . |
But not for long, CD Ripping will be legal from April 2014
(Well, assuming it makes it through parliament)
Also, you will the be able to use Amazon's cloud player with your own MP3's legally for the first time (Yes at the moment cloud storage of copyright data is illegal without the express permission of the copyright holder as well)
Actually all format shifting will be legal as long as you do not break DRM - Well, TPM (technological protection measures, a superset of DRM) to be exact.
So it will be legal to format shift your book (While still being completely illegal for someone like 1 dollar scan to do it for you)
Full proposal from Hargreaves Review here if you are interested
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2011-copyright-final.pdf