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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by MaxBarraclough on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:33PM (#20801867)
> anything along these lines that's done for personal/internal use seems likely fair game

How about students photocopying books?

Universities seem pretty convinced that's not permitted.

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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by SkyBelow on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:42AM (#20808506)
It has been some years but I don't remember mine ever having an issue with me copying books I own. They didn't even have an issue with copying books I borrowed, which seems far more suspect.
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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:25PM (#20815053)
This article [0] says that, at least here in the UK, it's permitted to photocopy a chapter, or an article, but it's not OK to photocopy a whole library book, even as a student.

They note however that The concept is not defined in the legislation, so they seem to be going by feel really.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/copyright/library/photocopyi...

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