Legal home copying in other legislations
Posted Sep 16, 2004 16:25 UTC (Thu) by
job (guest, #670)
In reply to:
Legal home copying in other legislations by eru
Parent article:
Record labels' man in Washington (News.com)
Yes, and at least in Sweden, personal use explicitly includes your family
and/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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