Timeline for What is the law on scanning pages from a copyright book for a friend?
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| Jul 12, 2023 at 9:21 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | @gerrit why specifically me lol | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 6:56 | comment | added | gerrit | If OP lends friend the book, knowing that friend will make copies, OP may be complicit in copyright violation? | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 22:53 | comment | added | user71659 | "because the law prohibits anyone making any unauthorized copy, regardless of the ownership status of the physical original" Not so. In the US, qualified libraries have certain rights to make copies by statute, see 17 USC 108. In particular note subsection (d), which gives users certain rights to copy from library materials and subsection (e) which gives rights to materials that can't be bought reasonably. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 21:07 | comment | added | Michael Hall | There are a LOT of very similar questions on copyright issues here... | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 20:43 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | I've listened to a lot of Tom Scott's video on copyright law on YouTube. From this and general culture, I've received the impression that copyright is indeed at its theoretical core as you state, but in practice (likely falls under the "fair use" you brought up), it is more complex, and I was wondering if a single friend as a one off copying a portion of a book for another friend would be generally deemed something most authors and publishers would be alright with. We live in the age of easily sending snaps on whatsapp etc... Perhaps that is now going out of scope for Law SA | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 20:38 | comment | added | user6726 | law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106: the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords... The law doesn't list all the ways of making copies, nor does it explicitly address cases saying "Yes, it is even prohibited when you scan a book" (since the law was written before there was such a thing as scanning). | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 20:33 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | Thanks for the answer. Could you expand, and cite a source for your first sentence | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 20:23 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |