01-20-2006, 03:31 PM
Occhidiangela,Jan 20 2006, 10:18 AM Wrote:Doc
"Satisfactory?" Does that mean that if you can't have a simplistic answer, you presume there is no answer at all?
When you make a statement regarding the 'right" relative to copyrighted material, I suggest you are better off answers your question by using Google, Yahoo, or any number of other web resources. Many of these cases are covered at websites visited and populated by intelligent and informed posters whose background is in the law, specifically copywright law.
.edu sites for Columbia, Cornell, and many other law schools have quite a bit of this stuff posted in Adobe, easy to read.
Occhi
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What I want is really very simple.
Is there one iota of difference between me making a perfectly legal copy of say, ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man and mailing it to you Occhi on a cassette, or just emailing it to you? Either way, I am not making a profit. Or how about I make you a copy of Ishtar on a video cassette and mail it to you? It's perfectly legal. No profit is involved. Under fair use, I am completely within my legal rights to do so. But if I do the same thing and instead send it to you electronically, I am now somehow breaking the law.
The difference here, as I have stated, is that the industry gets kickbacks for each cassette recorder sold. No such luck for ripping mp3s. Judges could not make a ruling that people buy a computer for the sole purpose of ripping music so they could not rule it as a copy making device for the sake of the sin tax. However, people that went out and bought dual cassette boom boxes so long ago, it was painfully obvious what they were up to. And people like me who bought dual deck VCRs.
If the judges had ruled that computers were in fact a copy making device, and the sin tax was applied, we wouldn't be having this debate and I would be free to email you a copy of Ishtar.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."