Downloaders can only be penalised if they make duplicate songs for other people
UK fans can copy music for private use
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07 Jun 2006, William Eazel , V3
The threat of prosecution for copying music from a CD onto a PC or MP3 player no longer hangs over UK music fans, as long as it is for their own use.
Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said that consumers can only be penalised if they make duplicate songs for other people.
"I want to 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," Jamieson told the Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport.
"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."
Jamieson also called for Apple to open up its iTunes software to make it compatible with other manufacturers' technologies, stating that he did not believe Apple's dominant share in downloads was "particularly healthy".
Home counterfeiters account for the majority of investigations made by The Federation Against Copyright Theft and the British Phonographic Industry.
Earlier this week an influential group of UK MPs called for " crystal clear" labelling of digital music and video content to let consumers know what they can and cannot do with such purchases both online and offline.
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Do you agree?
Not completely thought through....
So, tehnically the UK DOESN'T have "fair use" defined in copyright law but according to the BPI they'll "turn a blind eye" over home users copying CDs and converting tracks from one format to another providing it's for PERSONAL USE....great...So one can copy and convert tracks but thanks to the European Copyright Directive and the US DMCA, we circumvent the "disk protection technologies" only to find that we get sued for breaching copyright law and breaking the protection despite that BPI saying it's legal to copy or convert for personal use. Yet another brilliant example or the idiocy that rules in this sad country!! Let's get some solid definition written up of personal use and sort out these ridiculous laws we have!!
Posted by Rob, 08 Jun 2006
Rented music sucks!
This is still a nightmare scenerio if it does fall into other's hands. I think people should own the music if it's in their homes.
Selling it for profit is another matter.
If I rent from musicnow.com they don't have every song I need and are missing vital tracks.
If I accept a Napster song from my brother, time to go to jail I guess or even worse be counted as a terrorist.
Posted by Mark, 07 Jun 2006