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Subject: GUS Programmer's Digest V16 #9

GUS Programmer's Digest     Wed, 18 Jan 95 12:15 PST     Volume 16: Issue   9 

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                    GUS Programmer's Digest V16 #8

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 01:42:55 +0500
From: rroyer@vt.edu (Bob Royer)
Subject: Re: GUS Programmer's Digest V16 #8

>>As far as I know, it is _illegal_ to read the data on audio cd's.  Why?  
>>Well, you'd be able (if you had a CD Burner) to make exact duplicates of 
>>Audio CD's, which is an infringement of Copyright law.

>It's sometimes allowed to make copies for your own personal use. What will 
>get you into trouble is giving copies to other people. It may be that 
>reading and dumping to the GUS is legal, whereas reading and storing in
>a .WAV file may be illegal, due to the more permanent nature of harddisk
>storage. I'm not a lawyer, so I may be all wrong.

 as far as I know it is legal to make one copy as long as it stayes in your 
possession, and you own the original, and you can change the format to a 
different form of media (ie. cd to hard disk)


Bob Royer
rroyer@vt.edu
 

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