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If I buy a book, I'm allowed to read that book, but I am not allowed to copy it.

• spunker540 7y ago
  You are allowed to copy it, you just can’t sell copies of it.
  • rocqua 7y ago
    The first line of wikipedia: "Copyright is the exclusive right, given to the creator of a creative work, to reproduce the work" You probably won't be in trouble until you start trying to distribute your copies, but the prohibited thing is copying. Hence the term copy-right.
  • EarthMephit 7y ago
    You are not allowed to copy it, or sell copies of it Under fair-use laws (which vary country to country), you can usually copy a small portion of the work for non-profit educational use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
• amelius 7y ago
  Who says Facebook is copying it, not just reading it?