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2006-09-15 19:22:12 · 6 answers · asked by mizan s 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The issue here is copyrights. When the ability for the average consumer to make a recording on magnetic tape surfaced, the music industry went to court to ban their use. They won and they lost. The FCC was involved and the courts decided that to make a copy for your own use of something copyrighted was legal, but to give away or sell the copy WAS illegal. This ruling continues today throughout the media industries. So, for you to make a copy of a CD is legal, but if you give it away or sell it, you are breaking the law. Napster was hauled into court because of copyright infringement and lost, even though all they did was provide a way to share media files and exercised no control over the content.
Now, if you are the copyright holder for the CD you copied, then it is your right to give it away if you want to. Is the material on the CD you plan to copy your own creation? if not, and the material is not in the public domain, i.e., still under copyright, then you will be breaking the law to sell or give away a copy you made.
Stand by, the music industry is taking people to court for sharing files which contain copyrighted materials. At last count tens of thousands of people have been served notice by the music industry for sharing MP3 files.
Don't say no one warned you.
2006-09-15 20:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by rowlfe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are saying that the friend would not have purchased this CD, then burning him/her a copy would be fine. Otherwise, if this is a CD that such friend would have purchased, it is really not fair to the artist and creative people who made this record. That's my take on it - - Interesting ethics question - though.
2006-09-15 19:33:28 · answer #2 · answered by lalo m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Imagine you're in the entertainment business and instead of buying your CDs some people are burning them therefore denying you your fair monetary return.
2006-09-15 19:51:58 · answer #3 · answered by eebee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is fair. All is fair with computer. That's why we have this website, Yahoo Answers.
2006-09-15 19:58:07 · answer #4 · answered by MrZ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
why wouldnt it be fair in the first place?
2006-09-15 19:29:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as he does't burn another copy to his friend and so on it is okay
2006-09-15 19:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by raj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋