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Originally Posted by HarryT
Whatever the law does or doesn't say, the reality is that you can already do whatever the heck you want with your own stuff. Nobody's ever been prosecuted for doing so, or ever likely to be. It's only when people start being idiotic and giving copies to other people that problems arise.
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Yes, but there is also the third-party facilitator issue.
In the US the Cablevision case established that content distributors could perform fair use activities on behalf of subscribers before, during, and after distribution and the recent Aereo court victories are holding that independent third parties can perform fair use efforts on consumers' behalf as long as it is on a one to one basis. So the dollar scan operations would be legal even if they didn't destroy tge book so long as the actually scan each individual book.
Of course, the case is fresh and still has to be appealed to the supreme court but so far so good.
http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/11/su...case-april-22/
The US court system tends to be friendlier to consumer interests and property rights than Congress so fair use has a fair chance of prevailing.