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Legal home copying in other legislationsLegal home copying in other legislationsPosted Sep 5, 2004 14:25 UTC (Sun) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Record labels' man in Washington (News.com) by jeroen Parent article: Record labels' man in Washington (News.com) In Finland making a copy for personal use is explicitly legal (with some exceptions). As a kind of compensation, there is a kind of "cassette tax" levied on just about any media that can store music (this includes nowadays even CD-ROM and DVD-ROM blanks). The proceeds go to a music publisher's association, which is supposed to use them for grants to artists. Nevertheless, the music publishers rail against private copying just as elsewhere, making many people needlessly feel like lawbreakers... As to P2P, I think the current interpretation in Finland is that while downloading any files off the net for personal use is not illegal, making them available over the net without the rightholders permission is. Since P2P programs famously work 2-way, I guess it makes P2P users liable if they load and then provide files that are not cleared for net distribution.
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Legal home copying in other legislations Posted Sep 16, 2004 16:25 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link] Yes, and at least in Sweden, personal use explicitly includes your familyand/or close friends. That would even make "sharing" legal, as long as you stick to your friends. And I think this is a good thing. When we say copying, sharing, or listening, it's basically the same thing. The laws are loosely stiched together with special rules for public performance, publishing and playing. Technically now when music is all digital, these are all equivalent. What a crappy world if we weren't allowed to listen to records with our friends (no matter if they are physically here or not) or play lousy covers together (infringing their "property").
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