Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec...
by MaxBarraclough on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:31PM
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> 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.
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.