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Hobbies?

>>"Note the mention of single copies, including for the purposes of hobbies being legal? This is interesting, because it doesn't even limit it to say, an MP3 being ripped from a CD, but potentially means you can make a single copy of a DVD from someone else for use as part of a film watching hobby."

Not sure they'd consider 'film watching' a hobby.

I'd have thought they were thinking more of things like having technically-breach-of-copyright photos in order for an amateur artist to paint not-for-sale pictures from, where the copy was fairly transient, and wasn't some end in itself to be enjoyed in the same way as a typical legitimately-bought work might be.

Otherwise, someone could just claim that 'listening to music' was a hobby.

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