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For example, James Joyce's work is out of copyright for the past couple of years. Posted 13 May Smaug, the link is not working. What I understand by smaug's post is that if you do it, at least don't share it like torrents do. That link appears to have become circular due to the recent major TT software update. However the thread Smaug recommended, Accused of torrenting copyrighted material , is still pinned at the top of the Legal forum.
There are over posts in that thread scores of which cover your concerns but, since the new TT software doesn't include the old-style 'topic search' feature, I'm not sure how best to point you at a specific post.
AFAIK the risk lies not in downloading content per se but either in inadvertently publishing it in part or in whole when using P2P file-sharing or torrent sites or by storing multiple copies in part or in whole without having obtained the permission to do so included in the conditions of most retail purchases of the copyright holder for the Intellectual Property rights.
While I see your points about the limited availability of some books in the market as well as the expense bypassing legit sources is, in effect, like robbing the author. Nowadays the authors of best sellers may be earning much more than they would in the past but I suspect that for each one that does there are many hundreds of thousand authors who have virtually no chance of recouping their investment of time.
Posted 14 May Article 2 of the EU's copyright directive establishes that books are protected material emphasis mine :. Member States shall provide for the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit direct or indirect, temporary or permanent reproduction by any means and in any form, in whole or in part:. Such a situation cannot be regarded as satisfying the condition of the fair balance to be found between, on the one hand, the rights and interests of the recipients of the fair compensation and, on the other, those of those users.
The conclusion from all this is that, if the source of the copyrighted material acquired the material legally, then it is still possibly legal for you to make a copy of it other laws apply in that situation; what those laws are is outside the scope of this answer.
However if the source acquired the copyrighted material illegally, then it is illegal under all circumstances for you to make a copy of it. The next question is whether Libgen acquired the book legally. I'll consider it self-evident that for most books, they did not if they did, why would publishers be suing them? Accordingly the conclusion is:. It is not legal to download copyrighted books from LibGen. You can still download if the copyright has expired e. See also: the answer to this question on the Law StackExchange , writen by someone more familiar with copyright law than me.
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Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I found a great answer on Quora by an attorney, parts of which I'm going to quote: Yes, it is illegal to download "make copies" of material that is protected by copyright.
Improve this answer. JohnEye JohnEye 5 5 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. If I go to jstor. All rights reserved. No other license mentioned. If I go to sci-hub. One of them is legal and one is not, apparently. I assume that there is an agreement between the University of Chicago Press and JStor, so they can distribute it on the internet, but not one between the University of Chicago Press and Sci-Hub.
Anyway, it's a private contract between these two parties that I cannot see and audit. Am I supposed to ask for this contract every time I download a paper? It isn't admirable. Those who aspire to the academic life should also aspire to high standards of conduct. Respect the people authors who enable your own work.
Find ethical solutions to the problems you face, even when they are difficult. Buffy How do I advocate sneakiness? I actually tried quite hard to keep my personal views on the matter out of the answer and focus on the facts. As long as you don't get caught, you are unlikely to get in trouble This is true for pretty much everything you can do that might get you in trouble.
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