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spookyeviloneI am a legal secretary who works specifically with Intellectual Property and Copyright law. Let me educate you on one tiny little area you seem to be a little fuzzy on.
When one of my brothers writes to me, wistfully mentioning how he misses his CD collection because Uncle Sam has him stuck in a fucking Iraqi sandbox four years longer than they said he'd be there, and is bored off his ass because there hasn't been significant reason for a military presence in that area in at least three years, my response is to buy a cheap but large MP3 player and rip his CD's to MP3's, load it, and send it to him.
This? Is not copyright infringement. This is a personal use, which he is entitled to under the covenants of the original purchase of the CDs. I specifically stated this in the accompanying letter, due to restrictions on burned material. This clearly did not count as restricted, for it violated no IP rights whatsoever. He owns those CDs, he is entitled to burn copies of them or transfer them digitally FOR HIS OWN USE as many times and in as many formats as he wishes to. He can't give the copies away or sell them. That would violate copyright. Putting them on an mp3 player doesn't.
There was no reason for you to take it out of his parcel as contraband and send it back to me. This has irritated me significantly, because your petty little bit of bullshit means my brother won't have his music in time for the holiday, and with the mail glut, I doubt he'll get it by Christmas either.
No love whatsoever,
me
When one of my brothers writes to me, wistfully mentioning how he misses his CD collection because Uncle Sam has him stuck in a fucking Iraqi sandbox four years longer than they said he'd be there, and is bored off his ass because there hasn't been significant reason for a military presence in that area in at least three years, my response is to buy a cheap but large MP3 player and rip his CD's to MP3's, load it, and send it to him.
This? Is not copyright infringement. This is a personal use, which he is entitled to under the covenants of the original purchase of the CDs. I specifically stated this in the accompanying letter, due to restrictions on burned material. This clearly did not count as restricted, for it violated no IP rights whatsoever. He owns those CDs, he is entitled to burn copies of them or transfer them digitally FOR HIS OWN USE as many times and in as many formats as he wishes to. He can't give the copies away or sell them. That would violate copyright. Putting them on an mp3 player doesn't.
There was no reason for you to take it out of his parcel as contraband and send it back to me. This has irritated me significantly, because your petty little bit of bullshit means my brother won't have his music in time for the holiday, and with the mail glut, I doubt he'll get it by Christmas either.
No love whatsoever,
me