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>You aren't permitted to manually copy a book to notepaper, either. Do you have any case law dealing with personal use copies only? In my mind it is like copy
by SkyBelow 7y ago
>You aren't permitted to manually copy a book to notepaper, either.
Do you have any case law dealing with personal use copies only? In my mind it is like copying an mp3 file. I can make as many copies all over my harddrives as I care. It is only when I share those copies with others it becomes an issue.
>The whole point of copyrights are, after all, to manage the rights to copy.
While it is named copyright, generally they are applied to distributing copies, not the actual creation of copies. For example, anytime I make a backup of my computer I make copies of all data on it, including many I have no copyrights to. It only would be an issue when I started sharing/selling those copies.
- MaxBarraclough 7y ago> Do you have any case law dealing with personal use copies only? I'm afraid not (IANAL), but university text-copying policies seem to assume that personal copies are very much forbidden, for what that's worth. > While it is named copyright, generally they are applied to distributing copies, not the actual creation of copies It also covers creation of copies. Unauthorised recording is copyright infringement, despite that it's an act of creation, not of duplication. > anytime I make a backup of my computer I make copies of all data on it, including many I have no copyrights to. It only would be an issue when I started sharing/selling those copies. Indeed. That seems to count as fair-use provided you don't distribute to others.