Re: Get your records transferred onto CD

On 18 Nov 2003 Dominic Cronin
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:46:16 GMT, 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.
> >
> Not necessarily. 
> 
> You rather remind me of the public library where I went to photocopy
> some music. Behind the counter was a large notice saying "It is
> illegal to photocopy music". I had to explain to the librarian that it
> was the notice that was wrong, and not me, as the music I wanted to
> photocopy was my own manuscript of some tunes that had been for quite
> long enough to be out of copyright. 
> 
> Copying music from records to CDs is perfectly OK under some
> circumstances. 

You are quite right. Certainly if the work is out of copyright or you
own the copyright there is no problem, otherwise the circumstances are
quite narrowly defined e.g. for research purposes or for reviews but
you're then only allowed a short sample. It may well be OK to copy a 78
or even an early 45 or 33 rpm disc but not if the recording has been
reissued more recently on CD.

In practice the industry is too worried about bootlegging and free
downloads via the internet to be bothered about individuals making
one-off copies for their own use.

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