Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:40:16 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <20010304144016.B32152@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010304082413.E25558-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:28:01AM -0500 References: <20010304130501.A32152@lpt.ens.fr> <20010304082413.E25558-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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Trevor Johnson said on Mar 4, 2001 at 08:28:01: > > They do not permit free copying of their released albums, even on a > > non-profit basis. > > >From my reading of http://www.riaa.com/Copyright-Laws-4.cfm and a glance > at the actual law, in the United States this is legal to do with cassette > tapes, minidisks, or DATs. I meant, for redistribution. I had the impression that "private use" meant for your own use, ie, taping your CDs to use on your walkman and that sort of thing, and it's illegal to borrow a CD from someone else and tape it, or tape your CDs for others, etc. If that's legal, I don't see why napster could possibly be illegal. But IANAL... If any form of free non-profit copying is allowed, then I don't see why the fact that they allowed circulation of concert tapes is special. It's true, though, that they allowed fans to plug their tape decks directly into the soundboards, which most other bands didn't allow. I think many bands explicitly prohibit taping at concerts, by whatever means. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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