Re: Get your records transferred onto CD

On 17 Nov 2003 "icarusi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 17 Nov 2003 Derek H "Kingfisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Nothing wrong with this service,
> >
> > Apart from the fact that it infringes copyright.
> 
> Only the material is copyright not the media it resides on.

Yes but when you copy a recording you're copying the _material_ i.e.
the copyright work from one medium to another, or to another instance of
the same medium. You're not trying to replicate the medium!

> OTOH you're not technically allowed to have the original and the copy
> playing at the same time (or give either to somene else) as that
> demonstrates two instances of the material and you've only purchased
> a single instance of the copyright material.

No, you're not allowed to make a copy. Simple as that. It's not
enforcible but it's the law.

> Copying the sleeve graphics (without subsequently destroying the
> original) is a different copyright and could technically be
> actionable.

Destroying the original is neither here nor there. Copying it is still
technically an offence. It's a different copyright but then there are
at least three copyrights applying to the recorded work. If it's on
record then just recording a live performance of the same work is an
infringement of the mechanical-copyright. Playing a record in public or
on the air requires a different type of copyright clearance.
Performing a copyright work is another one. It's a minefield.

Now the companies that copy material onto CDs may well have got all the
necessary clearances and may pay royalties. If they give such
assurances then any comeback is their problem, not ours.

-- 
Richard Porter
Mail to username ricp at domain soundhunters.com
"You can't have Windows without pains."