Re: Free-sklyarov-uk digest, Vol 1 #1111 - 3 msgs

iriXx wrote:
> especially as, in the UK, I would not be able to own, let alone play my 
> (safely in storage) collection of still-in-copyright but impossible to 
> obtain tapes of folk music LPs from the former USSR in the UK. I would 
> also stress that I now live in a country where personal copying is 
> permissible.
>  ... 
> Is one permitted to copy one's own music to an /iPod/ in the UK? I 
> presume also not.
> in which case 99.9% of iPod owners are breaking the law... the only ones 
> who are not are the ones who have repurchased their own copies online. 
> Might be a little shock to the rather smug iPod users who think they've 
> gone 'legit'....

(Disclaimer: all AIUI)

I think the issue is simply that it's illegal to copy (including 
media-shifting) 'content' - be it music, video, ebooks, whatever - 
without the permission of the copyright-holder, except under the 'fair 
use' provisions.

You're obviously allowed to do whatever you wish with your own content, 
assuming you're the copyright holder - you're implicitly assumed to have 
your own permission to copy it.

I also assume that if you've, say, purchased content online from iTunes 
that the EULA allows you to copy said-content onto your iPod (and 
indeed, I understand that the iTunes software makes that trivial).

Whether it's legal to copy a CD of content for which you're not the 
copyright holder onto another medium depends completely upon the 'fair 
use' provisions in your country and, simply speaking, there aren't any 
in the UK, so it's illegal.

-- 
Nick Grimshaw
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