Copyright help. CD burning.

[WerBackIII]

OK, I'll start.
I have many CDs. Maybe around 300. So what's my problem?

The problem is that :
1.I want to make a legal CDs with the music I want
2.Now it's very hard to find good CDs in the shops.


I want to be a good guy, so please help me. I don't know the rules here. It's dark water for me.

 

[Turner]

So what's the problem? Legal where? CFC? Your country of residence?

 

[WerBackIII]

I thought that the copyright protection is identical everywhere.

The problem is that I want to burn CDs with a music bought from Internet, but I don't know how.
Actualy I know how to burn a disc, that's not what I mean.
Imean that I don't know the law.

 

[Padma]

Copyright protection varies from country to country, although the basic laws are pretty similar.

You most likely have the right to "fair use", which means you are "legally" entitled to make copies of music you have purchased, and put in other formats for your personal enjoyment. E.g., buying/downloading music over the net, and burning them to a CD to listen to in the car.

The music companies will try to prevent you from doing this, even though it is your right. They will use "Digital Rights Management" to prevent you from doing anything you are entitled to do with your purchased music, because you are a thief and a pirate. (You must be, why else would you not want to buy the same music three or four times in different formats .... )

 

[WerBackIII]

That's rediculas!

 

[Padma]

That's "ridiculous".

And I agree completely. You bought the music to listen to. It shouldn't matter whether you listen to it on your computer, via your MP3 player, on a CD in your car, whatever. Now, if you make multiple copies and sell them (or even give them away), you are voilating the spirit of copyright law, and should be legally culpable. But to just make your own "CD Remix" of music you have paid for, to listen to when you want ... that's considered "fair use" and is legal just about everywhere.

 

[kryszcztov]

I think the recent "DADVSI" law in France forbids you to copy the music you bought into a different format or on a different storage device... Not sure, but that's the spirit anyway. Now, nobody said that the French intelligencia was intelligent.

RMS, where art thou ???

 

[Padma]

I don't know about "DADVSI", but here in the USA, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) allows you the "fair use" of your music like that. However, it makes it a crime to bypass the DRM protection schemes, which is necessary in order to make fair use....


And RMS is busy re-writing the GPL.

 

[Sir_Lancelot]

I think the recent "DADVSI" law in France forbids you to copy the music you bought into a different format or on a different storage device... Not sure, but that's the spirit anyway. Now, nobody said that the French intelligencia was intelligent.

RMS, where art thou ???

Why care about laws that scoff at fair user rights. It's not good for the sanity. Do everything that is fair, but not more.

 

[kryszcztov]

And RMS is busy re-writing the GPL.

Yeah, GPLv3 !! With some anti-DRM bits inside.

I should take a closer look at that DADVSI law, all the more as they will soon start passing pragmatic laws with it.

 

[WerBackIII]

So if I buy songs in mp3 format, I can't burn a disc, because that way I'm changing the format! And they want from me to not brake the laws!

 

[.Shane.]

So if I buy songs in mp3 format, I can't burn a disc, because that way I'm changing the format! And they want from me to not brake the laws!

Download iTunes. It will let you burn from mp3 to cd-format that you can use in your car, etc...

If you're an anti-apple type, don't worry, there are other applications that do the same thing, but I prefer iTunes.

 

[Padma]

It isn't the technical aspect he's concerned about, it's the legal one.

 

[.Shane.]

It isn't the technical aspect he's concerned about, it's the legal one.

I realized that, I guess by that point I thought he'd turned it into a technical question.

Oh well.

GOD BLESS COPYRIGHT LAW!

 

[WerBackIII]

.Shame. on you!
I hate thislaw, but at all it is a law!

 

[EzInKy]

.Shame. on you!
I hate thislaw, but at all it is a law!

Prohibition was a law also, but was repealed when it became obvious that most people refused to obey it.

 

[WerBackIII]

So if we want the cheese be free, we will make succes!

 

[EzInKy]

So if we want the cheese be free, we will make succes!

We are not talking about free cheeses, the original poster paid for his. We are talking about fondue pots.