Is it legal to buy a cd and make a copy for a relative?
I’m sorry but I have to chime in here. In actuality what you are asking to do is within the limits of the law. I have talked to several law professors who have all told me that though the RIAA doesn’t like it – and of course the music industry hates it – it is in fact legal to copy your purchased music and give it to a relative. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1… The reason behind this section of the copyright act is because when you buy a blank audio CD, you as a consumer pay a use tax that is part of the purchase price, which subsequently goes to the copyright holders. Accordingly, you bought the right to copy audio media on the CDs you bought. You can distribute those copies (e.g. give them away) provided the distribution is not commerical. Next time you are in a Best Buy or Circuit City you will notice some blank CDs are labeled as data cds and others are labled as audio cds. These blank cds a
