h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Vinyl To CD Recording - A469640
Author: JyZude - U137989

It seems finished, although the author has been gone for some time. Very useful for those who want to modernize their record collection but may not know how.

It's temporarily hidden at the moment. what happened?

I'm checking the status of this entry. I'm not sure if this is legal, so I'm looking into it.

Have some music while we wait.

Surely it's covered under the 'fair usage' bit, whereby you're allowed to make copies of your own stuff, that you've bought, under the proviso that it's a backup....

My knowledge seems to be a bit out of date, from what other people have said I must admit. The last I heard you weren't even allowed to copy a CD you'd bought to play in a tapedeck. If that's been changed, then the entry can go back up with no problems.

I am *almost* certain that you can now take *one* copy of anything you buy, from software to music, on the pretext that you are protecting your purchase by making a backup copy, should the original get damaged.

That's the way computer software worked while I was at school. Make one backup, and use that to protect the original.

Although that may be true of software, it's not true of books or audio/video tapes. It's illegal to photocopy a book to protect the original: you use the original and when it wears out buy a replacement. I'm pretty sure this holds for vinyl records as well.
And even when the author is long dead - Shakespeare or Mozart for instance - photocopying a page from a modern edition of Shak or copying a Mozart recording or score is still illegal, though writing out the text or music yourself, or performing, is ok.

There is a way around this, and as it's such a great entry I've taken the liberty of making a copy of it, removing the sections that caused our lawyers the heebiegeebies and adding a bit of a disclaimer.

Maybe if The Cheese wants to submit this version instead, it's at A802306.

Jimster

Having checked with the lawyers, this is indeed illegal in the UK, so the entry has been removed. The Cheese, can you remove it from PR please?

Let me play devil's advocate here and introduce a different view on the matter.

I work in a used cd/DVD/vinyl store, and neither the artist or the record company receive a penny from sales of *their* copyright material made in our store. If I copy something I bought from us, especially something that's out of print, how can that be wrong?

Sorry about all of the commotion. Eek. I've removed the thread from PR. I was unaware of the UK law, so I didn't anticipate that there would be any issues over posting the Entry to PR.

Jimster: I'll be putting yours in PR ASAP. Thanks!

Mina and I simulposting there

(Just in case anyone thought we might be ganging up against ya)

Oh sorry Jimster, I hadn't seen your Posting.