On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:26:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The short answer to your questions is that other considerations may
> and have many times superseded the strict letter of the copyright law
> in the United States. The American Home Recording Act is just one of
> many, many instances. Find yourself a nice big recent treatise on
> American copyright law and read the whole thing. If you tell me what
> book you read I'll read it too. You're smart, you can hold your own
> with me after that.
I'm assuming this is in response to the questions I posted regarding
constitutional issues...
Assuming it is - there was no included text to suggest so, nor any direct
reference to either question or poster, I simply have one point to make:-
Re-read what I wrote - then on the list post answers to each question -
there's no catch, no hidden meaning - just answer them all, they all have
direct relevance to whether it is legal to make copies of copyright material
that you don't own, that has appropriate copyright restrictions.
It's really quite that simple - it's not a trap, answer the questions, they
directly relate. If you won't it speaks volumes about the validity of your
standpoint - there's nothing nasty or tricky in the questions, there merely
there to identify the other areas in which copyright infringements quite
possibly would be pursued.
Consider this, if it was completely legal to make copies of copyright
material that you don't own, by recording it in your own home, so long as no
fiscal transaction took place, then why would anyone ever by original CDs or
other prerecorded music media?
Just for the original artwork - I mean even if this is copyrighted, by your
logic people should be able to take copies of this too. Or simply their
morals?
With this rationale, I would have thought that music libraries in the US
would do a storm - I mean all people would ever need to do was obtain an
original copy, and copy it themselves.
I can only imagine the only people legally committed to actually purchase
original copies of the copyright material being those who use it
commercially, DJs and those involved in the music / entertainment industry
with this logic.
I would imagine prospective campaiging politicians could really leverage
this..."Hey vote for me and you can copy all the 10,000 CDs in my personal
collection - for free!...", sure sounds better than kissing babies to me!
;-)
Neil
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