Reproductive cycle: can an industry successfully take back rights consumers have long believed they enjoy? (Headliners).(Music industry copyright protection )

Video Business, November, 2002 by Sweeting, Paul

"RIP, Mix, Burn" reads the copy in advertisements for Apple Computers' latest model Macintosh, a campaign that has sent record company and studio executives into paroxysms of teeth gnashing and table pounding. At a hearing on Capitol Hill in February, Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner cited the Apple ads as evidence that technology companies see facilitating piracy as the "killer app" for their wares.

What Apple was actually promoting, however, would almost certainly never be held to be a form of copyright infringement in any U.S. court. Copying (or "ripping') tracks from your CDs onto your own hard drive and then burning them onto a blank CD is simply a digital version of making compilation tapes from tracks on your own LPs. I do it all...

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