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Originally Posted by HarryT
It may be "fair use" under the copyright laws of your country, but it certainly isn't under British copyright law. The 1988 "Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act", which is the legislation covering such things in the UK permits one to copy one chapter of a book, or one article from a magazine. Scanning an entire book - even one which you own - is illegal in this country.
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Yes I've heard that before. Rather draconian if you ask me
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Originally Posted by rwsimon
It seems like fair use boils down to the source of the copy. I have absolutely no qualms about ripping a CD I own to put a copy on my iPod. But I won't go find the same CD on some internet site to get it that way. On the other hand, I probably can't give you a very convincing argument for why these two things are different, other than that using the illegal route helps sustain that channel in some sense. Of course, there is the practical distinction between ebooks and CDs that we all have the ability to easily transfer from CDs to digital files while getting from pbooks to ebooks is not so simple. I guess that just muddies the waters further though.
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Bah you've taken all my arguments away from me