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UK's Legalization of CD Ripping is Unlawful, Court Rules

posted by takyon on Saturday June 20 2015, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the rip-in-peace dept.

tt2033981 writes:

Late last year the UK Government legalized copying for private use, a practice which many citizens already believed to be legal.

But now several music industry organizations in the UK have won a judicial review which renders the government's decision to allow copying for personal use unlawful. According to the High Court, there's insufficient evidence to prove that the legislation doesn't hurt musicians and the industry at large.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 20 2015, @04:40PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday June 20 2015, @04:40PM (#198730) Homepage Journal

    At one time it was regarded as unlawful to make any backups at all of software. Eventually a law - or perhaps a regulation - permitted but one backup copy, specifically of software.

    That leads most quite reasonably to regard it as lawful to backup music CDs. That's not actually the case. I don't have the link at hand but the US Copyright Office published a web page which explains the difference.

    Also at one time, software was not covered by copyright in any way. Among the reasons that software is now included was that Bill Gates was so pissed off that everyone was copying his BASIC interpreter. He used to gripe about it on Compuserve but there wasn't a whole lot he could do about it until he got the law changed.

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