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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Only if done commercially, or at least on a commercially significant scale. At least in the US and the UK.
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Yes--I never said otherwise. I was simply correcting the misapprehension that copyright is ONLY a civil penalty. It's not. And I think you can assume fairly safely that regardless of volume, or "commercially significant scale," if it were a famous-enough author, the criminal penalties would be applied.
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Originally Posted by peaceridge
What if the original book had not been shredded, but donated to a library?
I am responding to Hitch's post about scanning and then shredding.
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As HarryT states, that's clearly and patently infringement. Where once one copy existed, now multiple copies do.
Hitch