This e-book deals an unique research of personal copying and determines its real scope as a space of end-user freedom. the root of this exam is Article 5(2)(b) of the Copyright Directive. even though copying for personal and non-commercial use is authorized by means of advantage of this text and the nationwide legislation that carried out it, there is not any mandate that this privilege shouldn't be technologically or contractually constrained. as the criminal nature of non-public copying isn't settled, clients may possibly examine that they have got a ‘right’ to non-public copying, while rightholders are in place to ban the workout of this ‘right’. With electronic know-how and the net, this rigidity has develop into widespread: the conceptual contours of permissible inner most copying, specifically the non-public and non-commercial personality of the use, don't translate good, and have a tendency to be much less transparent within the electronic context.

With the permissible limits of personal copying being contested and with no readability as to the criminal nature of the personal coping quandary, the scope of person freedom is being challenged. deepest use, even if, has constantly remained loose in copyright legislation. not just is it synonymous with person autonomy through the exhaustion doctrine, however it additionally reveals safeguard lower than privateness issues which come into play on the degree of copyright enforcement. the writer of this publication argues that the explanation for a personal copying difficulty is still unaltered within the electronic global and keeps there's not anything to avoid nationwide judges from studying the felony nature of non-public copying as a ‘sacred’ privilege that may be enforced opposed to attainable restrictions. 

Private Copying will be of specific curiosity to teachers, scholars and practitioners of highbrow estate law.