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Also, whether you make the copy yourself or not has nothing to do with the law of intellectual property. The act in question might state that the copy is "a personal copy of the work made by the individual", but this is very much meaningless. Under the law of obligations you can transfer your rights to someone else. There are also contracts of works which allow someone else to exercise your rights.

There are very few rights you cannot transfer (things like getting married), and "work made by the individual" does not necessarily mean that you cannot transfer the right to copy your book. You can hire someone to scan, OCR and correct a 1000 pages long novel for you, and that someone would be using your right you transferred to him. Take individual meaning as legal real person, and the woman doing your work for you as an extension of you which is the individual, the legal real person.