Seems that if the mere act of ripping CDs to MP3 format didn't fall under fair use, every maker of MP3 players would have been sued into oblivion by now.
I copied CDs to tape long before the MP3 format was around. On 3/14/07, Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/14/07, Michael Lax <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <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 > > -- Jon DeShazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
