recordable has a fee added to the cost to cover the copyright fees. This
was added in the 70's when the discussion was about recording songs off of
the radio. I don't beleive they have removed that charge. (If someone
knows for sure that it was removed, I'll take back my rant)
So your paying for the right to copyright something that they say you
can't copy.
Sounds a lot like taxation without representation to me.
George
George Cohen
Chief Information Officer
The Walker School
700 Cobb Parkway North
Marietta, GA 30062
office 678-581-6913
cell 305-297-5543
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>The keyword that you stated is home use.
>
>As someone pointed out to me...we don't make photocopies of each book
>purchased for the public or school library, because it would be illegal
>to
>photocopy an entire book. When the book wears out, is damaged, or lost,
>we purchase
>another copy.
>
>I can tell you that personally, I have different formats of my favorite
>albums of all times, because the format keeps changing, from 8 track,
>album,
>audio cassette once the Walkman became popular, and CD once I could use
>it
>everywhere. Now there's the MP3 player. Now that technology has made it
>easier, I
>make backup disks for my car or wherever else I want to not worry about
>my
>original getting destroyed.
>
>I don't know what else to tell you.Yes, materials in digital format can
>more
>expensive and fragile. In some cases, I can purchase a library bound
>copy of
>a book that costs just as much as digital media. I just never really
>thought
>about it much...I purchase the material and if it gets damaged
>blatantly, I
>charge the user, and purchase another copy. If it just wears out or
>gets
>scratched, I either replace it or I don't, just like a hardcopy book.
>
>Camille Atkins
>Librarian
>Fredericksburg Academy
>Fredericksburg, VA
>catkins@fredericksburgacademy.org
>
>
>In a message dated 3/21/2008 8:47:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>kgatling@MPH.NET writes:
>
>And yet, we're allowed to do this with our home stuff.
>
>Seems to me that for the longest time the recording and music industries
>counted on us losing or wearing out our records and films as a source of
>guaranteed future income, and now that we're in the digital age, the idea
>that we might be able to make backups is anathema to them.
>
>And yet, when we buy music and movies digitally, we're actually advised
>to
>make backup copies. At least the iTunes Store does. Could this be a case
>of
>the right hand not knowing what the left is doing? Do we maybe need a
>test
>lawsuit to establish that we have a right to make backup copies, a
>concept
>that no reasonable person would find a problem with, and that most
>reasonable people would consider the entertainment industry greedy for
>trying to squelch?
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Camille Atkins <CUAVCU@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand what you are saying...the purpose of making an archival
>copy
>> is
>> to have a copy in case the original is destroyed. According to my
>> interpretation of copyright law, we are only allowed to make those
>backup
>> circulating
>> copies for software, not for audiovisual, which would include DVDs and
>> music
>> CDs. Check and see if your video or music producer/supplier gives you
>the
>> purchaser (school) archival rights.
>>
>> Camille Atkins
>> Librarian
>> Fredericksburg Academy
>> Fredericksburg, VA
>> catkins@fredericksburgacademy.org
>>
>
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