If you own the book, it would fall under fair use provisions of the copyright law.
Dave
At 02:44 PM 11/8/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anybody know what is the US legislation that allows an individual
>disabled person to scan a complete book for their own purposes? Ie why
>is this not a copyright infringement?
>
>It is not the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act, 1996, which only
>covers non-profit organisations distributing copies for disabled people
>as far as I can see.
>
>I haven't been able to get Google to show me the answer!
>
>TIA
>Regards
>Ian Litterick
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