Is this legal?? (My iTunes Library)

[Camilo Orozco]

Hello everyone,
Is it "legal" (I´m not talking about "moral" here), to copy songs from my iTunes library to someone else's iPod and charge $$$ for the "service"???

What do you thinK?

[Craig F]

if we are talking about your own music you have made then no

If we are talking about music you have bought that someone else made then yes

[spkguitar]

I think you have that backwards.

The question was; "Is this legal?"

Selling your own songs? Yes.

Selling songs you purchased? No.


It's actually not even possible directly (unless you convert them to a different format first).

[Craig F]

your right, I'm a little foggy from allergy meds

[EGS]

your right, I'm a little foggy from allergy meds

Different forum?

[narcoboy]

sell other peoples songs? VERY illegal.

[Ryan Young]

The only thing possible that I could think of is reimbursement of a CD-r or something ($.05/disc now?). I'd stay clear from taking money for it.

[lemix]

Camilo,
Definitely NOT legal..
I even question just copying it without money involved..that would qualify as distributing copyrighted material on a tangible medium.

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[Camilo Orozco]

I am asking this because I watched a program from Discovery Channel about the iPod, and when Steve Jobs presented one of the first versions of ipod and itunes (don’t remember the exact version) he mention that the idea was to make users to "share their music", this drew my attention!!!, This sounds to me that sharing my music with itunes and ipods is not illegal.

I believe that copying my library to someone else is not OK (moral), but the question here is that is this REALLY illegal? I mean is it against the Law?, if it is, why letting users around the world copy their music to another "hard drive"???

[lemix]

IMO..it's really a matter of who owns the copyright to that track ?
It has been a few years since I worked at an APC ( Anti Piracy Compliance)department..
Logic dictates that every copy of artist XXX released on label YYY copied, takes away royalty income from their legal owners..
Go figure..

andrew