Recording Industry Changes Tune Of Recording Music

GOT your Chritmas pressie of Kylie Sings X-Factor? Wnt to make  copy for all your friends in the institution? Want to put it on your iPod or work PC?

Says the Washington Post:

Sony BMG’s chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, testified that “when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Copying a song you bought is “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy,’” she said.

But on Dave Farber’s IP mailing list, Dan Gillmor says the following statement was removed from the music industry’s website (but you can still read it on archive.org):

“If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that’s great. It’s your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail.”

Gillmor adds: “Also, from the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Grokster case, Donald Virrelli, on behalf of the entertainment companies:”

The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly lawful to take a CD that you’ve purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod. There is a very, very significant lawful commercial use for that device, going forward.”

Does anyone still buy music?
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