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Originally Posted by phenomshel
And what about this scenario? I want a book in ebook format. The book is not available in electronic format, anywhere. So, I buy a physical copy of the book, scan it (destroying it in the process), OCR it, and make my own ebook. I bought one copy of the book, I now own one copy of the book. Legal? Probably not. But the author and publisher got their money for one copy of the book, which is what I now own, albeit in a different format than the one I purchased.
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Legal in the US. Making a copy for someone else is probably not legal. (It's iffy. Non-commercial outright copying hasn't yet found its way through the US courts; the RIAA has tried and not yet been successful.)