Here in Sweden that is absolutely 100% legal, it is called privatkopiering, private copying, we even pay a fee on storage media and phones to compensate for the potential loss of revenue that an artist may suffer from us doing it.
You may even share the copy within your family, but no further.
In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM).
It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.
You got a source on that? I don’t think that falls under fair use.
However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit the restrictions allowed by the copyright owner’s reproduction right.
That’s right, I forgot. It’s legal to make a backup of the DVD, but it is illegal to bypass the DRM.
But there’s some legal loophole where unless they actually witness you ripping the disc, they can’t prove that you bypassed the DRM, so they can’t really do much about that. So, it’s not exactly “legal” so much as it is “not illegal”.
Ripping a DVD I own to my hard drive for my personal use.
That absolutely depends on local laws.
Here in Sweden that is absolutely 100% legal, it is called privatkopiering, private copying, we even pay a fee on storage media and phones to compensate for the potential loss of revenue that an artist may suffer from us doing it.
You may even share the copy within your family, but no further.
In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.
In the United States, this is perfectly legal. It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
DVDs have copy protection.
You got a source on that? I don’t think that falls under fair use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
That’s right, I forgot. It’s legal to make a backup of the DVD, but it is illegal to bypass the DRM.
But there’s some legal loophole where unless they actually witness you ripping the disc, they can’t prove that you bypassed the DRM, so they can’t really do much about that. So, it’s not exactly “legal” so much as it is “not illegal”.