Thread: Re-selling DRMed ebooks: Legal or not?
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Old 07-08-2009, 12:00 PM   #165
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It does indeed very badly need to be fixed. There is a proposal, which has the backing of the British Phonographic Industry, to legalise the backing up and format shifting of CDs, etc, and that would presumably also apply to eBooks.

I knew that making a personal copy of a book was permitted in the US, but I'm really surprised to hear from zerospinboson that one is permitted to retain the copy after selling the original.
Am I misunderstantig or as for now it's illegal in UK to sync CD's to an iPod?
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