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I am neither a lawyer but I had to copy a lot of content for training purpose of in my professional career. I can confirm that in Italy you can copy 15% of any book for any "study or education" purposes.

Point is that "study" is basically everything you're doing without immediate business value.
You don't have to be following courses, or the university... or anything and you don't have to prove you're studying: as long as you're not earning money from the copied material you have you're ok.

Also, in Italy you can also literally copy any IP and copyrighted content for satirical or academic reason. ALSO you can copy any content for free use and distribution as long as it's not for profit and it doesn't produce a demonstrable damage to the original owner (yet, differently from US we don't have any fair use or any rules like in US where if you don't pursue in court you lose the rights. Even if you forget an IP for years and ignore a lot of abuses, you won't lose any right).

Which means that yes, you can copy a borrowed book up to 15%. Or use IP protected material as you like as long as you do it for free and don't cause a damage to the rightful owner (for example publishing rules)... or even copying it for profit (or: on YouTube) if it's satire.

Last but not least: there is no "functional" copyright in Italy. Books (and software too!) are protected in how they're written, not what they contain.
I can literally rewrite a GW book with the same rules and value and stat, but as long as I will change specific words (like WS or BS) I'm good. In this case, I'm producing a damage to GW, but what I've created is essentially a competitive ruleset that uses the same miniature... And since no monopoly is legit, I can do that.
Even if I retro-engineer a software and recode it in a different language, as long as it's not a directly translating the original code, I'm good.

Sorry for the OP parenthesis, but many on this forum seems to overestimate the reach of copyright laws in general. The world is a big place (and, for example in China, I don't even think they have Copyright as we mean it).