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Originally Posted by popper
Under current UK law consumers who rip music they have bought from CDs to their iPods or MP3 players would infringe copyright. However, Peter Jamieson, Chairman of the UK record companies' trade association, the British Phonographic Industry, told the House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media Sport Inquiry into New Media and the Creative Industries on 6 June: "We believe that we now need to make a clear and public distinction between copying for your own use and copying for dissemination to third parties and make it unequivocally clear to the consumer that if they copy their CDs for their own private use in order to move the music from format to format we will not pursue them." The question now is whether or not there will be an explicit change in the law to reflect this or whether there will simply be a change in the nature of the licence on the CD. Instead of the wording "all rights reserved" perhaps we will start to see on the CD inlay a limited licence to copy to other |
While the record companies would undoubtedly prefer us to buy the CD and the electronic version and any number of other formats of the same material over and over again, it's never a good idea to sue your best customers!