Home recordings to be made legal

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MUSIC fans will be able to legally record their CD collections onto iPods and MP3 players under a raft of proposed changes to Federal Government copyright laws.

 

Taping TV and radio programs and using copyright material for parody or satire will also be legalised as part of the reforms.

And in a move expected to be welcomed by artists, the Government plans to introduce new enforcement measures to combat piracy.

 

The changes are part of a major overhaul of copyright laws to be announced today by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock in response to millions of Australians who effectively break the law every time they reproduce copyright material for personal use.

 

The key changes relate to the recording of copyright material from CDs, audio tapes or vinyl records onto an MP3 player or home computer.

 

Under existing laws, people copying material risked being sued by the copyright owner.

 

 

For someone who had copied their entire CD collection onto an MP3 player, the damages could, theoretically, be in the thousands.

The reforms will also mean people can legally dub old VHS cassettes onto a DVD. However, the Government is still reviewing whether to extend the exemption to recording DVDs onto other devices.

 

Other exemptions will relate to the use of copyright material for non-commercial purposes by schools, universities and libraries.

 

The Government wants to crack down on those who are using the material to make a profit or causing significant losses by distributing other people's property.

 

The new penalties will include on-the-spot fines, while the Government will also make it easier to establish copyright piracy in legal cases.

 

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[WantDaChronic]

wellt he best way to stop people from making money from piracy is to make it legal

 

but then again its not actually gonna make a difference at all considering the person would have to buy the cd or what ever before they can legally copy it

 

besides that, who wants to pay $30 for a cd that might only have 3 or 4 good songs on it? i dont know about the rest of you, but i refuse to pay that and i just download what ever music i want

[mr_moppet]

It's about time that the government did something like this

[Frazz]

Sounds good ......but i wouldnt trust that philip ruddock cunt drafting any law .......

 

so long as they leave my torrents alone i guess its ok

 

[raverspec]

So, theoretically, I could buy a dodgy pirated CD off eBay for $5, then once I got it copy it to CDR and give the original away? And me and whoever I gave it too would come up smelling roses?

 

[nugget]

So, theoretically, I could buy a dodgy pirated CD off eBay for $5, then once I got it copy it to CDR and give the original away? And me and whoever I gave it too would come up smelling roses?

 

 

And, theoretically, all the CD-R's that i have in my posession I actually owned the originals at one point in time

 

EDIT: so yeah, aside form the obvious 'loopholes' that may pop up, bloody good news for alot of people