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D&D General Is it legal to scan books I own in hardcover to use on my iPad?
Horwath
Legend
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's nineteen ninety-nine
Try 1989
This issue has been tried in many forms, from making cassette recordings to rip-mix-burn and the upshot has always been: if the user owns the source material then making a copy for personal use is fine. Perhaps there is some obscure locale that doesn’t allow that, but I’d be very surprised.
And make sure you don’t share your digital copies. Just because it takes a click, doesn’t make it right.
And make sure you don’t share your digital copies. Just because it takes a click, doesn’t make it right.
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
IANAL, the value of this is what you paid for it and I'm not charging.
When I've looked into this before for the US, it was legal to make an archival backup of media you owned. However, "archival" was a key word - it can't be to transfer it to a more useful medium, just for backup in case your primary copy was damaged or destroyed. Also it was you archiving it - a copy of someone else's version of the same media did not fit the restrictions. So basically, you were allowed to make a copy of a copyrighted work, but not, for instance, to have a handy PDF of it to bring with you.
Oh, in the US if it was published before 1923 or you have permission from the author, go ahead. The first isn't protected, the second you are allowed.
There's also a question of Fair Use to make a copy, but that has a notoriously fuzzy boundary so I'm not going to attempt to talk about something I have limited and possibly misleading information about.
When I've looked into this before for the US, it was legal to make an archival backup of media you owned. However, "archival" was a key word - it can't be to transfer it to a more useful medium, just for backup in case your primary copy was damaged or destroyed. Also it was you archiving it - a copy of someone else's version of the same media did not fit the restrictions. So basically, you were allowed to make a copy of a copyrighted work, but not, for instance, to have a handy PDF of it to bring with you.
Oh, in the US if it was published before 1923 or you have permission from the author, go ahead. The first isn't protected, the second you are allowed.
There's also a question of Fair Use to make a copy, but that has a notoriously fuzzy boundary so I'm not going to attempt to talk about something I have limited and possibly misleading information about.
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lowkey13
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the Jester
Legend
I believe that this is wrong. You can't (legally) download someone else's copy, you can only make a digital version of your own copy.
