Tuesday, January 01, 2008

The Slippery Slope of Intellectual "Property" Law

"[T]he [recording] industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

"The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files [Jeffrey] Howell [of Scottsdale, Ariz.] made on his computer from legally bought CDs are 'unauthorized copies' of copyrighted recordings."
--Washington Post, Dec. 30, 2007


Hat tip: Jacob Hornberger

Cross-posted at Liberty & Power.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2008 at 5:41 PM

    I hope the courts buy the RIAA's argument. Then there will be yet another way for me to flip the bird to the "law."

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  2. Sheldon RichmanJanuary 3, 2008 at 6:47 AM

    Maybe it will set off the revolution.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2008 at 2:59 PM

    Written without a touch of irony, I'm sure!

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