[Dixielandjazz] copying CD's

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

I have to agree with this as well Bill,  and this is actually covered 
in the copyright laws revisions #  50 million three hundred thousand 
forty seven or so.   No one is going to prosecute any individual for 
making a copy of anything for "Their own personal Use".   The folks 
they are really trying to stop are the Big For Profiteering operators.

I many years ago sat a a major Record Industry convention in Florida 
and watched the Major Record Industry give the" Recording Industry Man 
of the Year Award" to a guy from Atlanta as I recall who had just two 
weeks previously been arrested by the FBI for pirating and illegally 
counterfeiting phonograph records of ALL the major Labels biggest and 
best selling acts and distributing them to all the retailers serviced 
by the same labels.   He certainly was not the only one guilty of such 
practices.  I also watched another Record label receive more product 
shipped back to them for credit than they had ever even manufactured, 
:))

You can imagine that guys very unhappy predicament especially when he 
did not get the expected check in the mail from his "Distributor"   
Seems the records were being manufactured out the back door by the 
"Distributors" friend inside the manufacturing plant and then sold to 
the retailers with the retention of all the profits to the 
"Distributor".

The major Record Industry is and always has been full of sharks and 
sophisticated Thieves of the highest caliber, as well as the associated 
protection organizations all around them in royalty collection, 
publishing, and anything else.

Sadly,

Tom Wiggins



   Dear listmates, 
 
  If you buy a CD (pay good money for it at the record store) then, to 
some degree, you own the damn thing and you should be entitled to do 
whatever you want with it for your own personal amusement. That should 
include burning copies for the disc player in the car and for your 
portable CD player as well as the big stereo unit in the living room 
entertainment center! 
 
  On the other hand, I don't believe it entitles you to make a dozen 
copies or more and give or sell them to anyone else. 
 
 Of course I could be wrong . . . 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Bill "I wanna do what's right" Gunter 
 jazzboard at hotmail.com