[Houmatt]

A copyright holder maintains rights to royalties only on an initial purchase. From there, the disc or book or whatever is the owner's to do with as he wishes. (Except to make a copy.)

For example: Recording the content onto a cassette tape for your own personal use.

Recording a song off of a radio is also prohibited, even if for your own personal use.

In fact, "personal use", in and of itself, is a term opposed by the RIAA.

[wizzler]

For example: Recording the content onto a cassette tape for your own personal use.

No, actually, recording a copy onto a cassette tape for personal use is defensible under fair use.

[Calpernia]

>>>Recording a song off of a radio is also prohibited, even if for your own personal use.

HOW can this be true? Why to radios and stereos come with internal feed to make recordings?

[SamAdams76]

For example: Recording the content onto a cassette tape for your own personal use.

Actually this is perfectly legal and the RIAA receives a royalty on every blank cassette tape sold, whether or not the end-user puts RIAA music on it or not.