Scan a book that I own?

ths1104 | 07:46 Sun 21st Aug 2011 | Law

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Can I scan a book that I own ? I want to read it on my Ipad. Then can I put it on P2P network for example ? If yes could you point out the reference article ? If not why ?

Modify book and sell it ?

PDF download legally?

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jno

you'd almost certainly be in breach of copyright. You own the 'object' - the book - but not the words inside it; the rights to those remain with the author or publisher.

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RAV1D

I wouldn't bother trying to do all that! Just scanning every page then saving the file and giving it a file name so you can keep each scan of each page in the right order would take for ever. It would be easier for a professional typist to re type the whole book out on MS word for you and save it as one file!

boxtops

You could scan it (if you must) for your own personal use only - read the copyright section in the front of the book - but you can't make it more widely available, otherwise the owners of the copyright will come down on you like a ton of bricks. It's not your work to share.

RATTER15

I think that would be fine until you try to share via a P2P network, then you could be in big trouble.

Mosaic

While not at all recommending that you attempt to do an author or publisher out of their income, it's worth being practical about these matters.
Bearing in mind what Boxtops has pointed out, weigh up the size of the book - 1000 pages, 50 pages? And also its popularity or otherwise. The publishers of a small almost-forgotten volume aren't likely to consider it worth pursuing - but don't muck with the likes of Dan Brown. Also be brutally honest with yourself - is it really for your own personal use alone and if so why are you using a network?
I'm possibly being ungenerous here and if so apologies and retractions in advance, but this sounds so very like a strategy adopted by some teachers when faced with a demand that they demonstrate commitment to e-learning. ie 'I know - I'll scan the texbook and stick it on Moodle'.
Which is most definitely breach of copyright.

bednobs

our copyright laws don't even allow you to put a cd you own on your computer and listen to it there, so i doubt it.
On a practical level, will you even have enough memory to do it?
what you could do, if reading it on your ipad is imperative is to download a book reading application then buy it in e book form

factor-fiction

Is this something you are considering doing or is it a theoretical question for your studies? I noticed on another thread you asked about amending the text of scanned copies and selling scanned copies

atalanta

Librarians are permitted to format-shift, but only when the original text in their collections is about to fall to bits. They are only permitted to do this for purposes of preservation. The Law came in in 2008, in a statutory Instrument.
If the text is over 100 years old ( the author has to have been dead for 70 years) you will probably be alright
But otherwise, NO you can't
Unless you wrote it yourself, that is.

ths1104

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Thanks everybody for answers. It was more theoretical anyway. (Just take too much time to scan a book!)