Actually, Tom, we DO pay royalty on blank recording media. Google Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, or go to http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap10.html
Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 [email protected] From: Tom Marchant <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/26/2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:01:12 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >I may be reacting to the huge damages garnered by RIAA/MPAA for >ripping CDs to MP3 format and having the MP3 "escape into the wild" I haven't heard one yet for ripping a CD that someone owned for use on his own MP3 player. Distribution, even unintentional, is different. I also haven't heard of any claims against software to rip CDs. Do you remember when they wanted to charge royalty fees for every blank cassette sold? That was shot down, IIRC. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
