RIAA Branch (BVMI) Lose In Germany: Private Copying Still Legal
Jon at P2PNet had this to write:
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.
Read the whole article at:
P2Pnet and Billboard
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