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All media sent to Oldies made Goodies for transfer must be
original material owned by the customer. If the transfer is from original work
created by the Customer, for example a "home recording" that they have sole
control of, then Copyright is unlikely to be an issue.
Oldies made Goodies will make one copy of the original media for the
purposes of private listening and backup, providing this is in agreement with
local laws relating to "fair use". Unless of course the material is not subject
to Copyright Law, in which case any amount of copies can be made.
It is the responsibility of the Customer to ensure that the ownership of the
Copyright conditions are met before transfer and copy of the media.
Oldies made Goodies assumes no responsibility for the ownership of the Copyright
and can make no assessment as to whether the Customer's media meets local
law in their country of residence.
The present situation in the UK (08.06.2006), as I understand it, is that
technically it is illegal to make any copy of any of your music apart from
time-shift recording such as for example making a VCR recording of a TV
programme to watch at a more convenient time. So all those millions of cassette
copies of our music we've made to play in our cars, have always been illegal, as
is downloading a song from a legal download site onto your PC and then copying
it onto an I-Pod or similar.
However, the BPI seems to be finally moving towards a more realistic position
regarding "fair use".
In a news article on the BPI site where the BPI has been giving oral evidence to
the House of Commons Select Commitee for Media, Culture and Sport in the inquiry
for New Media and Creative Industries. BPI Chairman Peter Jamieson states that "
Traditionally the recording industry has turned a blind eye to private copying
and has used the strength of the law to pursue the commercial pirates. We
believe that we now need to make a clear distinction between copying for your
own use and copying for dissemination to third parties and make it unequivocally
clear to the consumer that if they copy their CDs for their own private use in
order to move their music from one format to format, we will not pursue them".
Oldies made Goodies cannot enter into any discussion regarding the above
statement or the BPI news article.
All orders for transfer require a declaration by the Customer that, local
Copyright Law is being met, when requesting the creation of a Copy.
Oldies made Goodies can accept no responsibility for any infringement of local
Copyright Laws.
Oldies made Goodies does not retain or archive a copy of the Customer's media.
Once the Order is complete and delivery accepted by the Customer all media
relating to the Order is deleted from the hard drive. |