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charlesr@visi.com (Charles Robinson) wrote:

>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 
>
>I think that the law states that the "owners" of the source material are
>in fact merely licensing the right to play the material....  (no cites or
>references, just a "feeling") But I agree that it's dumb that something
>joe user can do for themselves becomes illegal if joe's friend does it for
>them.

Perhaps a way around this is for the person to sell me the LP, then I
can make a copy on CD legally, then I can sell the LP (with the CD)
back to them (I couldn't keep the CD if I sold the LP in any case).

Tom wrote:

In the US, for example, "fair use" permits the legal owner of the LP
to make a copy for personal use and there is no restriction on how
the copy is made. Other countries do not have "fair use" laws and
all copying is technically illegal.

I wonder if Australia has "fair use" laws?

I have contacted AMCOS to clarify this but no answer yet...

Here's an interesting site:

http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/cd_audio_rights_and_wrongs.htm

Seems the answer depends on who you ask - presumably nobody has been
taken to court yet to get a definitive answer...




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