Let's not start a lifelong thread again. But to make Austin's point a little
clearer, as per copyright law (in simple terms):
You are entitled to one backup copy of each original piece of intellectual
property that you have purchased and own as such. So if you buy a CD (be it
audio or data), you can make a backup copy and use that instead of the
original. So long as it is not hired out, broadcasted, lent, rented, etc,
and it is used by you and only you, then it's perfectly legal.
The law has many loopholes, which is why Sony was so fortunate back in 1982
(if I remember correctly) to get away with their Betamax video format's
capability to be recorded on by a conventional machine. The loopholes that
prevented Universal Studios from running Sony into the ground are the same
that prevent us from being run into the ground as well.
Adios,
LarZ
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Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2000 2:48
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Subject: MD: Fair Use
Not to quibble over details - but I think the notion that copying a CD to MD
for personal use legal is based loosely on case law and not on "fair use".
Fair use (section 107 of the Copyright Act) allows a critic to quote a line
from a movie in his review or allows a professor to reproduce a page or two
from a novel for his class. It doesn't allow under any circumstance for
copying a work in its entirety. (See
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/faq.html#q47).
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