Good post, andygrif.
Many, many years ago when I used to think LA Law was cool, my law lecturer taught me about the so-called "Betamax Case" which took place in the US in 1984. This precedence is still being referred to today although you have to replace Betamax by MP3
, in an attempt to argue the reasoning for having back-ups of legally owned pieces of music...
Briefly, it can be summed up as...
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The Supreme Court's verdict in the 1984 case between Sony and Universal was that it is legal to make copies of TV shows on your VCR and view them later, even fast-forwarding through commercials.
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...oh, and the Grateful Dead have, I believe, denounced their copyright rights for their bootlegged copies.
