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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am not sure that scanning an entire book per say is a copyright violation. Certainly content shifting for personal use is perfectly legal; i.e. if I scanned a paper book and only used it myself, I am certainly engaged in a fair use of the book (in the same way that ripping a CD into mp3 files is fair use).
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The trouble is right in the name. If you make a
copy without the permission of the
copy-
right holder, you are violating the law. With the exception of fair use. But Google did not own these books, so I don't see how it could be fair use.
I really like this agreement and wish the authors, publishers and Google had tried to work out a deal first. There may be some merit to the idea that this was the only way, but I am not convinced of that.