Thread: Paper books, ebooks and Copyright (UK)
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Old 05-25-2017, 10:57 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Yes, sending that recipe is illegal. You might be able to argue that it's such a small portion of the entire work that it's OK, but I'm not sure that works when it's a stand-alone thing like a recipe.

And yes, recording yourself reading a children's book to your child is illegal. If you tried to sell that recording as an audio book, you'd probably find yourself in court.

Of course, doing any such format shifting for personal use is very unlikely to come to the notice of the copyright holders. And they are also extremely unlikely to take any legal action against you.

But the government did make such personal use format-shifting illegal. And then the record companies sued and got the regulation overturned.

So currently, in the UK, ripping CDs into iTunes or scanning paperbooks to ebooks is illegal.
What about stripping DRM from an ebook? Making a backup with DRM? Making a backup without DRM? Format shifting an ebook, say mobi to mobi? Mobi to epub? All this for the U.K.

Sorry for all the questions, but I forget this stuff after a while.
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