Quote - Well no, because you're operating under what appears to be a correct interpretation of Canadian law, and I agree with you in that context.  However, Canada's the exception as far as I can tell.

 

I can see in US laws (my particular jurisdiction) that it could be argued pretty easily that the act of deliberately saving an image on one's hard drive is an act of reproducing it without permission.

An example, a copy of the image resides on the internets server. After a 'save image as' there's another dsistinct copy residing on a hard drive of the person saving it as.

To make an analogy, it's much like making a photocopy of copyrighted material - even if many people do it, it's not legal.  Here in the US, if you take a book or any copyrighted material to Staples, or Office depot or Kinko's or any other place offering reproduction services, they will refuse to make a photocopy for you - of the copyrighted material.

That includes instuction manuals, textbooks, fiction, literature, posters, photographs made by photo studios, magazines etc... Anything that shows copyright. EVEN IF one is making just a single copy for personal use. Technically and theoretically this even extends as far as teachers making copies of articles or book excerpts for handouts, even if those are least likely to get a slap on the wrist.

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