Within the copyright act I've always understood that multiple copies were
allowed to be made for educational purpose (ie. if a teacher wanted to make
50 copies of a Sun Ra CD for a tool to teach a class on free-jazz, etc...)
Other copies made could be considered non-infringement when put against an
"effect on marketplace" argument. But that's an argument that everyone will
have a different view on and is possibly relative to the overall sales of
the artist in question. So it could be argued that if you make a backup of
your CD there was no effect on the marketplace because (rightly so) you
weren't going to buy 2 copies anyway. However the law itself doesn't 100%
allow for personal copies to be made, and I would doubt this law could be
held up as a legal argument that copyright encoding/protecting CD's is an
illegal action.
But hey I'm not a lawyer. My specialty is label running not dissecting legal
text so it's entirely possible I'm wrong.
Jeff
on 8/14/01 5:01 PM, j snod at jordan@actualsize.com wrote:
quoted 19 lines On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Aaron Trumm wrote:>
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Aaron Trumm wrote:
>> I've never heard or read anywhere that said you have a legal right to
>> copying cd's over and over as long as its for personal use. certainly the
>> idea is that companies don't mind if you copy but ONLY if it's for personal
>> use, but I'd wager there's no law on the books having to do with a person's
>> inalieable right to copy
>
> yes it's called "fair use of copyrighted works." search for "fair
> use" on google and you'll find plenty of shit in the lawbooks protecting
> consumers' rights to fair use (aka personal copies).
>
> -j
>
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