I should ask some of the people I work with about that, because I'm not positive about it. My recollection (which can vary based on time of day & amount of chocolate consumed) is that either fair use guidelines or the DCMA allow for creating a personal use backup - I don't recall the location of that backup (MP3 vs. CD copy) being an issue; Sony dropped their CD copy protection pretty quickly after some bad media attention. Part of the problem with fair use, of course, is determining what's "fair" and what's "use".
Yes, DRM is just a load of giggles. Mike Lax From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Froehle Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] No more internet radio? On 3/14/07, Michael Lax <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:lzlong%40yahoo.com> > wrote: > Thus, copying a CD to your PC (not all of your > friends) is okay. Copying that to your MP3 player is okay. Michael, IANAL, but I'm fairly sure neither of those are considered legal under "fair use" guidelines since the consumer is NOT merely making a copy, but actually transforming the content into another format. While making a duplicate CD would be considered "fair use" (under the archival back-up provision), ripping the original CD to MP3/WMA would not be. Furthermore, if the CD has any anti-duplication technology at all, circumventing it automatically puts the consumer at odds with the DMCA. Or is there an authoritative reference that provides more accurate interpretation of this situation? If so, I'd love to read it! :-) - Craig [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
