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Originally Posted by darryl
The commentary suggests that "private use" extends to family and social circles. The Wikipedia article referred to this as including family and close friends. It would be interesting to look at the case law on this.
What is also clear is that it does not extend to copies of a whole book, thought apparently the same cannot be said of music or movies.
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Yes, whole books seems to be an exception.
There is some debate about what "private use" means but there are court cases that have said that family and close friends are included.
Some people argue that it does not need to be close friends at all (that friends are enough) and that it can be many copies but that is not an accepted interpretation. For my example one copy to a friend is enough for my point and that is definitely legal and ethical.
And it seems absurd to me to argue that you legally and ethically give a copy to a close friend that then move away to another country or something and that would make it unethical for you to sell or give away a LP or similar.
Also in EU to be allowed to have this kind of exception in the laws you must have a tax or similar on blank media and money have to producers. And I know that there are more EU countries that have or has had this kind of tax so I assumed they also had this kind of exception in the law.