Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!mccoy From: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Free Nelson Mandela Message-ID: <1117@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 1 Sep 89 01:50:00 GMT References: <5858@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Organization: Northwestern Univ. Evanston, Il. Lines: 46 In article <5858@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> jans@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes: ><...While it is technically illegal to tape copyrighted recording material, >people do it all the time. And it hasn't killed the record/CD industry.> > >Re-read the Copyright Act. It is not illegal to tape copyrighted recording >material for personal use. Even the powerful recording artists lobby knows >this. I think that the taping that the original poster had in mind was making multiple copies or copies for friends. If you have ever made a copy of a performance and given it to a friend, you have broken the law. This is the taping that goes beyond the "free use" clause in the copyright act and that the recording industry wails about. > The latest CD/DAT copy protection scheme allows *one* copy to be made of >any one CD. Sounds great -- those who have a financial interest in defeating >it will easily, while your average Joe will get his "extra DAT for the car" >from the black market! Sigh. At least it's better than the idiotic notch >previously proposed! Actually, i think that the compromise that was negotiated between the recording industry and DAT companies was a little different. I believe that the circuit in the cassette will prevent DAT to DAT copies, but not CD to DAT. This will make mass reproduction inconvenient, but not impossible. > >Perhaps follow-ups belong in rec.audio? Probably. This is wandering a little, but current legal opinion concerning the copyright act is a very important topic for the FSF (i think :-) > > Jan Steinman - N7JDB > Electronic Systems Laboratory > Box 500, MS 50-370, Beaverton, OR 97077 > (w)503/627-5881 (h)503/657-7703 jim ------------------------------< Jim McCoy >------------------------------------ mccoy@acns.nwu.edu | "...far too many notes for my taste" #include | -Phantom of the Opera "To thine own self be true"