Can you copy the music you buy? video to henrikwarp

Alright folks, here's a video response going out to an email I had and it is as follows. Right, I have a question for you that I think is interesting. Could you answer me directly or maybe do a video on this to share with the community? Imagine that I buy a few tunes from an online shop like beatport.com. Then say I want to burn those tunes onto a CD and play them in a club or anywhere. Is that legal? Yes, it is. Now then, if you buy a record from a shop, you are legally allowed... To copy that onto CD and use it for what is known as backup purposes, okay? Because you paid for it. Just the same as if you buy a CD album. You're legally entitled to make a copy for your own personal use, okay? You are not legally entitled to sell that copy. I'm not sure, tell me if I'm right or wrong here, but I'm pretty sure you're not even allowed to give it away.

Okay? Alright? I'm not sure. Not sure. Tell me if I'm right or wrong there, okay? Well when I say give it away, you can give the copy you bought away but you're not, I believe, legally allowed to give the copy that you've made away, okay? Because theoretically then you're giving someone free music. But the trouble is, well not the trouble is, everyone does it anyway, okay? I'm not saying you should do it, I'm just explaining what happens, okay? Now then, again with the likes of you downloading music off the internet. Right, if you've paid for that item of music, okay, then you've paid for it. You have played your part in making that music because if it wasn't for us paying for music, no one would make the stuff, okay? I mean alright, yes there would be people still making it but what I'm on about is the producers and the singers out there, you know, they would be stacking shelves in a shop to earn money because that's how they earn their money, by us.

Paying for the music to play it, okay? So, you download the music, you've got it on your hard drive. At the end of the day, if you want to take it somewhere, what do you do? You stick it on your iPod and you take it out with you, don't you? By sticking it on your iPod, it's exactly the same, really, theoretically, as burning it onto a CD and taking it with you. Now, tell me if I'm right or wrong. I'm pretty sure you are legally entitled to take it out and play it. Hope that's been a help, practice and enjoy.

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