In Germany, private copying is still legal
p2pnet news view Music:- Among many other unfriendy anti-customer assertions, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music say when you spend your hard-earned money on one of their products, you’re not buying it: you’re only licensing it.
In their view, you can’t make backups to preserve your over-priced CDs, and so on. But people do, and all the time.
In Germany, as everywhere else in the world, they’ve been trying to make the practice illegal. But and they’ve failed again. There, making private copies remains legal.
“The discussion about the legality of private digital copying was subject of the first revised copyright law in 2003,” says Billboard.
But now, “In the second revised version of the law that is still in force, the provision 53 was confirmed against the protests of the record-industry.
“Before filing the claim we were aware of the risks, but we had to take our chance because the fact of whether private copying is legal or not is of such a big importance for the record business,” the story has German music-industry (BVMI) spokesman Stefan Michalk (right) saying, adding:
“For us it is still very questionable that the court refused our claim for formal reasons.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Billboard – German Biz Loses Private Copying Case, November 6, 2009
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