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Old 03-13-2015, 11:29 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
Pretty sure the new format-shifting law brought in back in June was to make a personal copy of media (not digital media), my reading of it is that as long as you are converting the pbook yourself for your own use/backup then it is now legal in the UK.
e.g. Vinyl LP's are analogue not digital and you can now convert these to MP3's.
Thanks, Mike - that's an interesting argument. I guess we won't really know one way or the other unless (and it's unlikely to happen) a case were to go to court. I didn't think that the law applied to books, but I may very well be wrong.
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