On 2009-05-31 22:29, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-05-31 15:19:01, schrieb John Goerzen: > > This has nothing to do with that. This is a bit flag, and has nothing > > to do with the legality of copying some or all of the PDF. It is > > *always* legal, in the United States at least, to excerpt small parts of > > a document. This holds whether or not the author set this flag. It > > holds whether you copied and pasted, retyped, or photocopied. > > > > Also, I think it is silly to assert that it would ever be illegal to run > > cp on a PDF on one's own disk. If it's legal to cp it, then it is legal > > to convert it to text format. > > In the USA... Not in Germany and France. > Ignoring DRM let you run into touble here. :-/ >
This is not correct. In Europe similar laws exist. In Sweden you have the right to quote any published work, and after a quick search i found the same goes for at least France. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle=LEGIARTI000006278917 (in french) IANAL, but this seems pretty clear. -- Olof Johansson PGP: 0x7FC0FBBA http://www.stdlib.se
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