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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
This copyright notice I saw in book:
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Like all of these copyright "expansion" texts, there is no legal force in them. Only what has been codified into law in various countries actually matters.
For countries with "fair use" exceptions, you can freely copy text from the book (physical or electronic) for anything that counts as fair use.
Also, AFAIK, unless you distribute copies in some way, copyright law in all countries says you are OK. So, if you copy a book (physical or electronic) to another format and all copies are consumed solely by you, you haven't broken the law. Now, some countries have specific laws about DRM removal, but none of them have been tested in court where that was the sole complaint.