yes, even if "fair use" applies, is it fair on the artist for you to have half the family at home listening to the mp3 and half the family in the car listening to the original cd. if you hadn't copied/adapted it to mp3, you'd have to buy two cd's, resulting in more money for the artist (read record company).
so there are arguments both ways. On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:20:58 +1300 C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:03, Slosh wrote: > > This is probably splitting hairs, but isn't it legal to have an mp3 of a > > song that you own on an unpirated CD? > > I think (IMO) that it is legal to posess an MP3 of a track that you own, > regardless of the media it is stored on. This is completely the opposite > of what the RIAA believe (their stance is basically "you bought the LP, > you bought the tape, you bought the CD, you need to go and buy the > minidisk version if you want it on MD.") > > What do you buy when you purchase a tape of music (for example) A hunk > of plastic and iron oxide? Or do you buy a non-exclusive licence to > listen to a collection of tracks? Can one transfer such licences from a > tape to a CD? > > >
