Re: file sharing

Marcus Houlden wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:26:32 +0000, bof <nothingread@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote the following to uk.misc:
>
>>
>>
>> <http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article341342.ece>
>>
>> The people sued appear to all have made large music collections
>> publicly visible on a file sharing network.
>>
>> So what else is illegal?
>>
>> Is it illegal to:
>> copy my downloaded, paid for music files to an iPod
>
> Yes
>
>> convert my CDs to MP3s and copy them an iPod
>
> Yes
>
>> copy my CDs to the PC hard drive
>
> Yes
>
>> copy my music files an Internet connected PC that's password
>> protected
>
> Yes
>
>> copy my music files an Internet connected PC that's not password
>> protected
>
> Yes
>
> Strictly speaking the *only* thing you can do with CDs is play them
> on a CD player to a private audience. With downloaded files you can
> only play them on the computer they were downloaded to, unless the
> copyright holder allows you to do otherwise. "Fair use" doesn't exist
> in English copyright law, so making backup copies is also out.

Interesting again. As I said to Mary, here the law has an entirely
different approach. It considers the work to be your property once you
buy it but still with copyright on any public use. So at home you can
fiddle about with it as you will, stick it on your MP3 player,
considered part of your home, but not let anyone else have it to play
with in this way.

European copyright rules need to be harmonised, I expect they are on the
job, but this difference in law begs a question: What if you either
bought a CD in France and made a copy in the UK, or in the UK and made a
copy in France, or any similar trans-frontier situations, who's law
applies? Site of Purchase/domicile/HQ of seller etc?


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