Feb
20
2006

unfair use

Interesting … and a bit distressing: This week, Ars.Technica pointed out some language in recent legal filings by the RIAA that suggest that the group is introducing a new argument in its war against music piracy: Ripping MP3s from albums you’ve legallly purchased for use on your own portable music player is not fair use. (“RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use” - 02/15/06)

I’m sure the RIAA would rather folks pay for separate versions of songs for their iPods and their stereo systems — just like they have to now to put songs on their cellphones. But this flies in the face of how people have legally obtained their MP3s for the past six years or so.

Tags:
Posted at 6:19 PM in music, technology

Previous entry: edgies (portfolio) | Next entry: life imitates art (music)

Comments

That’s ridiculous - I don’t see how they could possibly think that’s going to get approved. In fact, it’s a little insulting.

Posted by Dari on February 21, 2006 8:49 AM

Post a comment

As a spam-control measure, your comment may require my approval before it will appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting. To avoid the moderation delay, consider filling in your e-mail address. It won't appear on the site, but I use it to whitelist frequent commenters so their comments appear automatically.


The following HTML tags are permitted (if you want to use them):
p, br, a href, b, strong, u, i, em, ol, ul, li, cite, blockquote

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.morethanthis.net/mtadmin/mt-tb.cgi/1379