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Originally Posted by TuxGirl
nope. you actually often don't have the legal right to print it out. You don't have the legal right to do anything that is not allowed by the license.
Now, with the DMCA, there are things that you likely think you should be able to do which you can't actually do (according to my understanding of the law). The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent DRM regardless of the reason behind the circumvention. If there's DRM on an ebook, you cannot legally convert it to a different format because in so doing you would need to circumvent the DRM.
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It's debatable. If the use you want is allowable by copyright law--within the range of fair use, or complete copying of a book that's in the public domain--the digital millennium *copyright* act doesn't come into play. If no "digital rights" apply to the book (or your use of it), then whatever software is preventing its use isn't technically DRM.
(Warning: IANAL. I suggest consulting one--a *good* one, with a lot of experience in copyfight activism--before attempting this argument in court.)
Also, of course, people not in the US are not subject to the DMCA.