Well yes, you own a copy of that song to be played from the delivery mechanism (the CD) in which you purchased it. It does not give you the right to copy it to another delivery mechanism, such as an MP3 player, unless the copyright owner allows that. Hence the word copyright (right to copy).
"Well yes, you own a copy of that song to be played from the delivery mechanism (the CD) in which you purchased it. It does not give you the right to copy it to another delivery mechanism, such as an MP3 player, unless the copyright owner allows that. Hence the word copyright (right to copy)."
Actually copyright law DOES allow this - specifically.
It's called Fair Use.
You're really bought the industry line hook, line and sinker haven't you?
As someonee else on this thread has already pointed out. There are specific provisions for 'fair use' expressly layed out in the incredible mess that is our modern copyright law. Of course, the big media companies are doing what they can to buy off enough legislooters to fix that oversight. THey also have 'right of first sale' fixed in their targets as well.
All any of this is going to do is give people even less respect for the law, if that is even possible. The supreme court also loses credibility when they seem to be endorsing the rediculous concept of "eternity minus one day" being the constitutional equivalent of a "limited time".