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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I am sure in some jurisdictions it is allowed. And of course Fair Use long ago settled your right to photocopy portions for academic or journalistic purposes or suchlike.
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Actually, the Fair Use defence in the US says nothing about the proportion of the work copied; simply the purpose for which you're copying it. If you have a legitimate academic purpose for copying a whole book (perhaps you want to underline every occurrence of the letter "A" in it, and you don't want to spoil your expensive leather-bound hardback edition) you could claim that it's Fair Use. Whether or not a court would accept your defence in the unlikely event of you being used for copyright infringement would be a matter for the judge. Remember that Fair Use is a defence against a charge of copyright infringement, not a permission to copy.