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Andrew Bowie <bowie@zipworld.com.au> wrote:

>This is one of those areas where copyright law is just stupid. The
>source material is owned by the person requesting the service and it is
>completely legal for them to put it on CD or tape for themselves, but
>not legal for someone to do it for them? Why? The whole reason for such
>a service is to save the first person spending $1000s on equipment to
>just transfer some stuff to CD. They WOULD do it themselves, they just
>can't afford it. So they hire someone else equipment and their expert
>abilities to do it for them. Its just like the PAL to NTSC video
>converters in my opinion and as far as I know that is legal.
>

This is from a case on the the Australasian Legal Information
Institute site (http://www.austlii.edu.au/):

Copyright in a published sound recording, or in any work included in a
published sound recording, is not infringed by making on private
premises a copy of the sound recording if the copy is on a blank tape
for the private and domestic use of the person who makes it 


I suppose we can substitute CD for tape.

All they are doing is hiring me to make the 'legal' copy for them.
Perhaps I could hire them the equipment so they could make the copy
themselves or take the equipment to their private premises to make the
copy 'on-site'. Neither of these would be cost effective but may be
100% legal...

There are people that provide this service already - if it was illegal
would the national papers carry adverts for them?

As you said, making copies of tapes onto different formats is the same
thing and plenty of places provide this service.

The service I would provide is for those people wanting to play their
old vinyl albums but don't have a turntable and the album has not been
released on CD.




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