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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: can I make these copies legally?
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 01:01:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 01:01:02 1984
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> Numbers 1 and 2 (I make copies of my own albums because LP's are
> an inconvenient format).  This has not been decided yet.  I would
> figure that it is alright, but once again the record companies are
> up in arms.  It seemed that this became a real big thing to do
> when Walkman-style cassette players became available.  The record
> companies are claiming that the Walkmans are ruining their market
> (even though most people record their own personal records for their
> own walkman use) because people won't buy a cassette copy and a LP
> copy.

Funny, but my impression has always been that there is an excellent
selection of LP records, but most of them are no available in tape.
Those that are available on cassette are recorded on a cheap tape,
not CRO2 or metal.  If I want a high quality tape, I have no choice
but to buy the record and a blank metal tape and record it myself.
It's hard to imagine a law telling me I can't do that.