[wizzler]

"Selling it" has no bearing on copyright infringement. YOU don't have to profit off something for damage to have been done to a copyright holder. The simple act of reproducing and distributing someone else's work can decrease the work's value.

I'm not sure why this is all so difficult for people to understand, but there it is...

[Destro]

-you are taking a conversation I had out of context. If I photocopy a chapter of a book (or a whole book) at the library - is that copyright infringement? I am not selling it. So what is that? and does that example of the print media apply or not to the audio/visual media?

Also I would like to know -- have copyrights become perpetual? I know in Europe the copyrights of many recorded music from the early Rock and Roll era is up or soon to be.