January 9, 2008

Copying a CD, legal or not?

According to the UK government it should be legal and the Intellectual Property Minister Lord Triesman has been saying that these laws should keep up with the times, as many people have been copying CD’s onto their computers for sometime now, even though this is against the copyright laws.

Even the industry itself has given a sort of half thumbs up to the proposals, but they made sure to say that this would only apply for personal use, any other usage such as multiple copying and file sharing over the internet would still be illegal.

I fact it would still be illegal to sell or even give away the original CD’s should a copy be made from them first. Allowing consumers to copy material and then give it away to other people would result in the industry losing out on sales.

Source [BBC News]