If you copy songs from original CD to your PC, is it legal to keep them on your PC if you give away the CD?
445149
yes it is as long as your not making illeagle copies of it
941881
I don't see where it is a bit illegal for you to make the image as long as you aren't redistributing or reselling copies of the game for profit and gain. That is the copywrite act you hear everyone screaming about. As long as you only copy it for yourself to load up with a virtual drive or something like that to keep the game cd in good condition nobody would ever know unless you tell them.
670179
Yes - as long as you have a CD drive - it's easy through iTunes. Check ou the Help feature in iTunes and it will tell you how. It's no sweat & you'll love it. You'll also be able to make custom CDs of your library from it if you have a CD burner.
890736
No you don't own the copyright to the songs. They still belong to the performer.\n\nYou do however have the right to make a copy to your PC, ipod etc. However, if you then give the CD away then you should get rid of the copy as well. \n\nthat is how the law now or soon will work in Australia. It is called format shifting and as long as you own the original you can have a copy of it somewhere else.\n\nso you can't buy a CD for a friend at Xmas, copy it for yourself and then give it away, you must own the CD.
80953
I dont think so ... But I do think there should be an alotment of free songs provided by the artists that maybe have a shelflife of say a week then the file disappears from your pc.This way they could tease you with a taste of their craft and leave it up to you to buy the rest.Ive borrowed a few in the past , but if I really like the artist I just go buy the cd.I suppose if I painted art I wouldnt want everyone coming in and wanting a print for free,not that much money in that.
360195
When you have a computer with a CD Writer (or sometimes called a CD burner), you can buy blank CDs and copy things from off of your computer onto the CDs, such as pictures from a digital camera. This means that you can, although illegal, copy music. You can "rip", or copy songs from an unprotected CD onto your computer, then "burn" them onto a blank CD which can be listened to in most CD players. When people sell these illegal copies, the copies are called bootlegs, and the sellers can be fined for making a copy of copy written material. I believe "ripping" and "burning" CDs is also disrespectful to the musical artist who made it.
161688
first u can go to the local cd shop and ask them to transfer them to acd which u can copy on ur pc or ask a frnd to give the songs if they hv the cd
454918
If you're willing to pay a little bit for it, DUCK SOUP at The Grove sells a record player that transfers to cd.  Depending on how many LP's you plan to transfer, that may be the way to go.\n\nNo idea on the legalities involved, alas.
987533
are you being serious? It means to make a copy of a CD.
1100417
No you are violating the copyright if you download the song from the web even if you already own the song in another format.\n\nHowever, it is generally accepted that copyright "fair use" allows one to make one backup copy of a work already owned.  So if you make a backup copy of the cassette to your computer you are probably OK.
816457
if your running windows and you have window media player you can use it to download the cd to the computer.  if you dont have media player you will need to get some sort of media player to rip the music to the hard drive. most newer computers have windows media player.
1176297
NEVER! LIMEWIRE IS ILLEGAL... KINDA.\n\nLime wire is not an illegal service, but using it (MOST OF THE TIME IS). When you buy a CD is says the norm copyright and everything, if you'd look into LimeWire, you'll find that getting anything wiht a copyright on the CD it came from is illegal.\nTHEREFORE, ANYTHING PEOPLE GOT FROM CDS TO ADD TO LIMEWIRE AND SHARE WITH OTHERS IS ILLEGAL. SO, UNLESS IT WAS A FREE DOWNLOAD FROM A BAND'S WEBSITE, WHICH MEANS YOU COULD JUST GO GET IT THERE, ITS ILLEGAL.\n\nPlus, you dont know who is sharing the music you get. Some one could put a populare song on limewire, but hide a virus in it, and millions of people that get it, will have viruses!\n\nIf you are smart you'll resist the temtation.
907495
If you are also providing the product keys and cd's, and are not re-using the software elsewhere this would be completely legal.\n\nBut if you plan on retaining ownership of the software for use on another computer, the software on the laptop would be considered pirated.
1083589
that's a fancy way of saying that the music license will not allow the file to be burned to CD.\n\nNow, if you were to analog record the music with a program like Wavepad and then burn it to CD, i guess there would be no way to stop you...\n\nremoving DRM from music is illegal.  creating unprotected recorded copies IS perfectly legal (so long as you actually own the music legally).
166945
nothing is free in life so of course it is gonna be illegal well idk it depends wut u consider illegal p2p isnt that illegal lol it is just person to person SHARING..u share cds with ur freinds now u just sharing it with ur millions of freinds
892057
By this I assume you mean burn a CD that can not be copied.\n\nThere's not really any way to do this. The method in which CDs are writen is too well known. If you actualy managed to develop some way that a CD could not be copied, someone would manage to crack is in a matter of days.\n\nAlso, if you're talking about music CD's, there's no way to stop people from playing them. If you can play a music CD, it's a simple matter to route the output into the input and record the music into an mp3 file without the CD player knowing it's doing anything other than sending music to a pair of headphones.
878291
Yes if the files you are copying are copyrighted and you do not have the right to copy them.