Is it allowed to photocopy books that you borrow from libraries in your country?

Yes, but there are limits to how much we can legally photocopy. We can copy one chapter, or a certain percentage of the total pages (I can't remember the exact number) if it's not divided into chapters. There are rules about printing digital sources too, I think.

Photocopying is not allowed by our copyright laws. But an exception is if the copy will be for your personal use and you will not profit from it.

Hi, songbaofang. I am unsure about this. But I do know that if we copy something from the computer, the library charges, 15 cents for every additional copy that we need.

I think this is considered to be illegal in the United Kingdom but I'm pretty sure that there are people that do this as it's convenient for them and they don't have to worry about returning books and so forth. That is the other thing to consider, the fact that books these days are so expensive and a student definitely needs all the help they can get! I personally would not photocopy pages from a book that I was studying as this would definitely hit my conscience! I have not borrowed a book from my local library for a very long time now that I come to think about it! I do everything on the Internet now including any research! I guess life goes on and we do the best that we can! Andrew

here in India , guide books or book having most of the question as solved are not allowed in the libraries.. almost every book in the library , the writer or the publisher has the copyright that no part part of the book can be reproduced or published without the permission of the publisher blah..blah.blah..but we have shop with Photostat machine in almost every locality..so why cant we get them Photostatted..the book Photostatted ans then the pages are spiral bound ..the spiral bound is the book for the student..yes there are a few books that are in the reserved action..these books cant not be issued,,so we can get them photostat only if the librarian permits.. BUT NO PERMISSION IS REQUIRED FOR THE BOOKS THAT CAN BE ISSUED...hurraY!!!!

well if it is not for commercial and for research and educational purpose you can push with "fair use" this is a site that a discussion with fair use http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-30100.html

My college textbooks cost alot too! Last school quarter, I bought a textbook and I took it home to my computer and photocopied all 400 pages so that I don't have to buy it. I spent three days photocopying it and saved fourty dollars. I don't think it was illegal, I wasn't photocopying it to sell it or anything. The authorities won't know anyways because it is only on my computer for my personal uses.

In my country we are allowed to photocopy books, but there are some restrictions. We are only allowed to take copies to ourselves, our familymembers and our close friends. We are not allowed to take copies to all of our classmates and things like that. Schools have to pay a fee if the teachers hand out copies to the students. The students pay a certain amount of money before the new semester starts, and the school spends the money on the fee that they have to pay.

Hi, song! I think we are allowed to photocopy books if it is only for personal use. It is prohibited to reproduce it if for commercial purposes. Books have really become expensive and, when I was still in school, I photocopy some books that we use if in my opinion, I cannot use it as a reference whenever I am already working. These are usually books for my minor subjects. Cheers!

I always do this, as it costs less and I even get the photocopies for free in the office where I work so I just need to borrow the books and get it done in the office and return it the other day, my law books cost a fortune so I cannot but all so I try to have them in photocopies and get them bind by a friend.

I have the books borrowed from the libraries and have them photocopied. It has long been my practice since high school

In the UK it is against Copyright rules not to photocopy books or any copywritten material without permission - HOWEVER, most people do it

I borrow the books I need, then take it to a photocopier. I'll have them copy the title page, leave the index and then bind it into a whole book! They won't allow us to photocopy the whole entire book from cover to cover.

first u should ask to the librarian; where he allows u or not.he will tell u its legal or not...

Yes and no. The library don't mind I think, but it some books it said that you're not allowed to photocopy the whole book. Usually in the really thick American text books that are filled with pictures and 600 pages long, so copying would cost nearly as much as buying it :-/ I got many of my text books used for that very reason, too long to copy and quite expensieve to buy new ones.

Hey Buddy Well I'm from India and I haven't came across any such kind of law which prohibits students from getting books from libraries photocopied. Although such kind of restrictions are rather imposed by authors or publishers but not by the government here. yeah I know that there are some books which are extremely costly to buy and it is always economic to get them photocopied. So we dont have any such legal restriction for getting books photocopied here in India.

It depends on the policy of this libraries. There are libraries that allow the borrowing of books and photocopying it. There are also some libraries that are strict on this kind of stuff.