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From: mat@hou5d.UUCP
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Subject: Re: can I make these copies legally?
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 02:44:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 02:44:09 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.

Well, Anton Berg's opera *Lulu* was, for many years, published incompletely.
The first part was published by permission of his estate (his wife) but the
second half was not published.  She apparently felt that the one of the
characters in the opera was HER and she didn't like it.  I believe that
the work has finally gotten out.

Anyhow, I suspect that if CBS decides that they do not want to ``print'' any
more copies of Nicholas Danby's recording of Frank's *Chorale #2 in B minor*
they do not have to.  If I wish to make a tape of someone's disk for my own
use, and subsequently send them the full price of an LP for the privilege of
of doing so, they do not have to accept it, and if they don't want me to
make a tape, then I CANNOT legally make that tape.

What does all of this mean?  Copyright is a RIGHT, not a property, and
cannot be handled under the same laws.

						from Mole End
						Mark Terribile
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