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Old 01-25-2010, 04:35 PM   #16
alecE
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
...The relevant part of the UK's copyright act is civil law. The copyright holder would have to bring a civil action against you in court and, given that editing a book that you've legitimately bought, for your own personal use, is not an act which causes any loss or damage to the copyright holder, it's difficult to think of any reason why they would wish to do so. Again, nobody has ever been so prosecuted.
Nice to know that there's little danger of prosecution if one were, hypothetically, to engage in DRM removal, typo correction and front cover replacement before loading one's purchased item in to Calibre.

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