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Old 07-08-2009, 12:14 PM   #160
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
Of course it is a red herring. While you own a pbook it's perfectly within your rights to copy that book, whether it's laborious or not.
I am within my rights to copy one chapter of a book, or one article from a magazine. That is what British law defines as "fair use". Copying an entire book is not fair use, and is a copyright violation (where I live).

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And if I subsequently decide to sell my original book, I still have the right to keep this copy, under current legislation.
Really? That does surprise me, I must say. So you can buy a CD, make a copy of it, and then sell the original, while keeping the copy yourself? I'm pretty sure that I couldn't legally do that in the UK. In fact I know I couldn't, since I couldn't legally copy the CD in the first place.
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