> -----Original Message----- > From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 February 2005 16:33 > > Does anyone know the legality of having a digital copy of > something you already own (vinyl or cd) on your laptop? (in > the US or in the EU?) > > This is the precedent that if it isn't EU-wide soon might be: > > Norway Proposes New Digital Copyright Law > http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/2-11-2005/20050211080016_40.html > > This kinda scuppers any use of laptops for DJing doesn't it?
Exactly the point I was about to make re this Italian DJ thing: it's all very well everybody saying "well he deserved it if he'd ripped the mp3s from the net and not paid for them and if he owned the records that'd be legal and dandy and everything'd be OK" but is that really the position? - apparently not. After all if you put a DJ mix up on a site the records are (probably!) yours but because you're not listening to them at home but spreading them to a wider audience that's illegal (doesn't matter if you're making money out of doing so or not). So Alex you could load some vinyl on to your laptop and go round a friend's party and play them and get arrested! It's all very well saying "well they can arrest me if they like but it doesn't matter to me because I know I'm in the moral right" but you're not going to be too happy when you've been fined $1.4 zillion and your life's f**ked are you? Which may be the point in this thread in the first place - if a rule that seems wrong becomes law talk about it, publicise it, shout about it, protest it! (then when your protest has had no effect at all apart from getting you arrested under some draconian public disorder law + we've invaded Iraq go to the pub and get p***sed)
