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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Yeah, sounds like a bad law.
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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.
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I don't know if what he said is correct or not, it may be a "grey area". I think trying to sell the "original" multiple times is definitely infringement. As for selling the one you bought and keeping the backups for yourself... I don't know. The intent of the law is to stop unauthorized distributors. I don't think a single legal distribution while keeping a personal backup is something they had in mind when they wrote these laws.