Harry G;194109 Wrote: > > Does anyone know for sure what the legal status is for giving some of > your music files to a friend? >
Assuming you are in the US, I think other posts have it correct. However here in Canada, if I understand the law correctly, it is legal to make a copy of music (and only music, not movies, not books) for personal use. The law does not specify that you must own the media you are copying from. Thus, for example, it would be legal for me to visit a friend's house, and using his equipment (but my own blank media), make myself a copy of one of his CDs, and take it home. However, it would be illegal for him to copy his own CD then give me the copy. The essence is in who performs the copying. Thus I believe (but I'm not a lawyer) that it would be perfectly legal for me to borrow a CD from the local library and make a copy for myself. As soon as I give it away to someone else, it becomes illegal. Any Canadian lawyers in the house? :-) -- joatca SB3, B&W DM602 S3s, bi-amped from Cyrus III and Cyrus Power ------------------------------------------------------------------------ joatca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34366 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
