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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
As Mike L pointed out, the laws involving copyright are written as they should be, media-independent.
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That is not true in all cases. The Dutch law is media-independent for the source of a copy (you are not allowed to copy the `work'), but not with respect to the destination. The law makes a distinction between physical copies and digital copies. Although these terms are not used as such it is clear from the explanations that there is a separate article in the law regarding making digital copies (including digital copies from physical objects, like scanning a book). In the latter case you have more rights: you can make a copy for yourself, for private, non-commercial use, whereas for making photocopies you are only allowed to copy a small part, but you can have the copying done by someone else on your behalf.