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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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The Betamax case established that copying
for the specific purpose of time-shifting is fair use; not that copying anything for any purpose is fair use.
I gave a link a few posts back to a whole forum full of lawyers, whose decided opinion was that scanning books is not legal in the US. I suspect that they know more about the matter than we do. (Certainly more than I do, anyway!)
Of course, the question of whether anyone is going to
care if you scan a book for personal use is a completely different one to whether or not it's legal. I'm absolutely certain that nobody is going to get into legal trouble for doing so.