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Originally Posted by Quoth
But IA were sharing the copy to the world.
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Not if you uploaded it or sold copies in the local market. Still not OK.
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Yeah I can read thanks.
Before Sony vs. Universal City Studios it wasn't clear that making a copy of a TV show on a tape was fair use
even for private use. That's why Sony was sued in the first place.
This is a case mainly about controlled digital lending. Internet Archive scans a book, stores that book somewhere and lends out only the number of copies they own. They are not selling copies, they are not widely distributing them and they are acting as a library. Maybe this isn't fair use, maybe it is but I don't think it's nearly as clear cut as you suggest.