Is it illegal to burn CDs for personal use?

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COvalle says:

I have a few reasons for this belief.First, I'm going to distinguish this action from the above analogy. Copying a CD for a family member or friend is not the same as checking a CD out from a library and copying it. They're two different acts, and that makes a difference.Actually, there are a lot of acts and copyrights affected here. We have the copying act and the distribution act, and all the copyrights associated with music.Historically copyright has not restricted personal uses, which I believe this act is. Copyright restricts distribution of copies to the public. Part of this action (giving the copy to a friend or family member) does not meet that criteria. Section 1008 also prohibits lawsuits for noncommercial copies that use an analog or digital copying device (which does not include a computer, by the way). I recall at least one member of Congress expressing skepticism as to the implication that the law they passed would restrict this type of use. I'll see if I can dig that reference up one of these days. Anyway, personal uses haven't been illegal, and fair use is generally an ineffective way of looking at them. Jessica Litman has a really interesting paper on the subject at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=926575 called "Lawful Personal Use."If you're looking a fair use argument, here's a quick one.1) Purpose - A personal use, for. This is distinct from peer-to-peer music sharing in scale (distribution to the public) and from cases such as Grokster, where the court determined that the uses were commercial.2) Nature - Against.3) Amount - Depends, but usually against.4) Effect on the Market - Kind of a wash. I don't see this having a harmful effect on the market. The mistake in many reports is equating a copy with a lost sale. It's not.Because it's generally a personal use that doesn't impact the market much, even in aggregate, I think that the use is fair. There's all kinds of room for debate, naturally. ^_^I do agree that a license for downloaded songs would probably expressly forbid that type of copying.On another note, the presence of unauthorized copyrighted material does not necessarily imply infringement (when you're talking about "retaining" material). There was some debate about this in an RIAA case last year. I can't find the articles at the moment, but I'll go back and look when I have time. Whenever that may be. :P

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