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There are dozens (at least) of sources of music on the internet, with authentic sounding/looking web-fronts. I'm not really sure whether, prior to downloading
by ghshephard 14y ago
There are dozens (at least) of sources of music on the internet, with authentic sounding/looking web-fronts. I'm not really sure whether, prior to downloading music from that site, it's (A) reasonable to expect someone about to download music to do a full court-system search in all relevant jurisdictions to determine if a copyright suit has been filed against said web-fronts, and (B) even more complex, make a legal assessment of the validity of that lawsuit.
While I think the vast majority of us would agree that there is no practical liability for downloading music from iTunes/Amazon/mp3.com/etc... without doing a full legal assessment of that activity, I'm genuinely interested as to whether there is any De Jure legal liability (on the part of the downloader) associated with purchasing/downloading content in which the distributor had not fully obtained distribution rights.
- tedunangst 14y agohttp://www.copyright.gov/title17/ http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ The punchline, http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#501 http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#501, is you can't do any of these things, http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106 http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106, or you're in trouble. Mere possession is not listed, the author is not granted an exclusive license to own a copy. Then there's http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap6.html#602 http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap6.html#602 in the event you're downloading internationally. I'm not sure downloading counts as importing, but even so it specifically excludes people importing a single copy for private use.