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Originally Posted by fjtorres
(Personal use is a different netherland; producing an ebook for *personal* use out of a pbook is *probably* legal as long as nobody else gets to use it. Copyright is about *distribution*.)
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Clearly any discussion about legality will depend on location.
Where I am (the UK), it is unambiguously not legal to produce an eBook from a pBook, even for personal use, just as it is not legal to produce an mp3 from a CD.
It is also equally clear that most people, including the government, thinks that this is silly, and that there is no chance of you ever being prosecuted for it, nor has it stopped me doing both things.
Copyright law in my jurisdiction is not just about distribution, one of the rights restricted to a copyright holder is the right to copy. (Unsurprisingly, given the name
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17 Infringement of copyright by copying.
(1)The copying of the work is an act restricted by the copyright in every description of copyright work; and references in this Part to copying and copies shall be construed as follows.
(2)Copying in relation to a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work means reproducing the work in any material form.This includes storing the work in any medium by electronic means.
(3)In relation to an artistic work copying includes the making of a copy in three dimensions of a two-dimensional work and the making of a copy in two dimensions of a three-dimensional work.
(4)Copying in relation to a film [F3or broadcast] includes making a photograph of the whole or any substantial part of any image forming part of the film [F3or broadcast].
(5)Copying in relation to the typographical arrangement of a published edition means making a facsimile copy of the arrangement.
(6)Copying in relation to any description of work includes the making of copies which are transient or are incidental to some other use of the work.
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On a very quick look, the same would appear to be true in the US, but not my area.