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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Well, US law works on the principle of default legality so things are considered to be legal unless explicitly banned by law. Absent a law criminalizing personal use scanning of books it will be legal until somebody makes a case in court against it.
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But there is a law - the Copyright Act of 1976 - which essentially says "you can't make copies without the permission of the copyright holder". Unless that has a specific exemption for making copies for personal use, doesn't that mean that such an activity is "explicitly banned by law"?