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Redbook Keeps Surprising

I was a Best Buy to get a memory card reader for my computer. Looked at the CDs and saw a few in the bargain bin that I would like to have, only a few dollars. Came home, ripped them with DB power amp, picked the best cover art. Transferred to my Aurender through the NAS and played away. WOW, impressive sound and I really enjoyed them both. I like the High Res downloads and my SACD collection but am often really impressed by good Redbook CD. It really is the music that counts. 
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cleeds
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dgarretson

Please provide a more specific reference regarding the illegality of disposing-- for profit or otherwise-- of an original CD after making a digital copy for personal use. The RIAA seems to be vague on this point.


The RIAA obviously has an interest in this matter, but it is not an arbiter of copyright law.

What's often misunderstood about US copyright law is that it isn't really based on assuring revenue for content creators. It's actually based on artists being able to control distribution of their work. The revenue then flows from that control.

 When you examine copying through that lens, it's easier to understand the limitations allowed on the copying and sharing of material.
cleeds
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zephyr24069
... if I buy an CD, LP, SACD, Movies on DVD or BluRay, etc.. pay full price and thus abide by the law, play it, enjoy it, and decide to make a copy of it to retain (on hard-drive, etc.. which I very rarely if ever do in the first place) then sell it or give it away, what’s truly wrong with that?

It's a copyright violation, that's what's wrong, because you can't profit from someone else's copyright.  Whether that troubles you enough to avoid the practice is another question.
 
cleeds
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zephyr24069
" ...consider this scenario; I buy a disc from a regular retail source, pay the prescribed market price, listen to it, don't rip it or save it in any way and then grow tired of it, and give it to a friend/donating it; is that a violation of copyright law as well?"

No, that would be perfectly legal. If the disc became a collector's item and you sold it for substantially more than you paid for it, that sale would be legal, too ... as long as you didn't retain a copy for your use.
cleeds
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Your son/estate/heir is free to sell or transfer ownership of the discs to anyone at anytime. But they can't also retain copies for themselves.
cleeds
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oregonpapa
" ... I like to make cassette copies of some of my favorite vinyl LP’s and play them in my car ... especially on road trips. Am I violating copyright law in this instance?"

This is not nearly so complicated as some here seem to want to make it.

For your own personal use, you can make copies of copyrighted material that you own. You cannot distribute those copies, regardless of whether you charge a fee for them, or whether you give them away.

@oreganpapa you still make cassettes???? You have a car that has a cassette player? That’s downright quaint!

cleeds
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oregonpapa
" ... I have a low mileage 2005 (just turned 64,000) Lexus LS 400 that has a Mark Levinson sound system in it."

Very cool! That car is only barely broken in!

"You should hear how it sounds when a really clean vinyl record is recorded onto cassette and then played back on a good car system like the Mark Levinson. Nothing "quaint" about it really. Nostalgic maybe, but not quaint.

I can imagine that it sounds fantastic. In the cassette era, I had various high end car cassette decks in my cars, and they sounded great. A standout was the Nakamichi TD-700. That was a terrific unit.

@oreganpapa, I didn’t intend for my "quaint" remark to be derogatory. I’m sorry if you took it that way. But recording cassette tapes from vinyl - which I’m sure was once common for many of us - now just seems ... quaint. But that’s a nice thing!
cleeds
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kijank
It is legal to copy any music to a tape since tape manufacturers pay royalties per foot of the tape.
I'm sorry, but you're mistaken. Yes, there is a small royalty fee paid by manufacturers for each CD-R they sell, but there is no such fee on tape.

Again, for legitimate copyrighted material that you own (CD, LP, whatever) it is legal to make copies of that content for personal use. It's permitted under "fair use."
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