David Fincher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>With all the discussion about copyright, I have a related
>question that I'd like some illumination on. If I have my own
>copy of a cassette, and the cassette is now defective (eaten by
>a player, magnetized, baked in the sun), is it legal for me to
>make a copy from a friend's cd (of the same album, just the cd
>version of it) to a minidisc? I assume since I've paid the
>royalty when I purchased the album that it would be legal. What
>if the tape is workable, but I just want a digital copy, so I
>borrow a friend's cd and make a copy to md?
Yes, this is perfectly legal. When you buy a CD, tape, LP, etc. you are
buying a license for that particular work, not for the physical form. If
you own the tape, you have purchased a license of that work, so copying a
friend's CD when you already own the tape is fine.
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