Because it would prevent the writer and the publisher from receiving their rightful income, this would certainly be unethical. (Think of all the hard work and expense they invested.) I hope Mike Goad will enter this discussion. Here is what I copied from him earlier this month. (Let's call it "fair use"!) Mike says, My personal opinion is that three pages of anything copyrighted would be excessive. In the U.S. such usage would come under the principle of "fair use" which allows "limited" copying. Three pages would seem to be more than "limited." I have a page on "fair use" at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/html/copyright9.htm part of my copyright site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/copyright1.htm ------- Anyway, after copying a whole book, all you'd have is a bunch of loose pages in a binder. Much better to have the book that will last. Alexandra On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:13:35 -0600 Bettie Wood <[email protected]> writes: > This came up on my list. > Is it illegal to copy a book for your own use? Or does the > copyright have to be "invalid" or "up" before you can copy it? > Thanks for any help, > Bettie/Momma Walton <>< > > > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives at > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=copyright > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >