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To: HamiltonJay

Ask JimRob about copyright laws. If the owner of a copyrighted article asks you to cease and desist, you are legally required to do so, or you could be paying damages to the owner.


35 posted on 05/14/2007 1:19:29 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Bear Down Chicago Bears)
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To: sharkhawk

No, the issue with JIMROB was what is FAIR USE and PUBLIC DOMAIN... there is no debate if I own a song in my music collection, I can go download MP3 copies for myself from where I choose to, and I have violated absolutely no copyright law.

The presumption by the RIAA is if you download a song over a file sharing network, you have zero right to that song, which they have no idea if that is the case. They PRESUME you have don’t have right to use it, but based simply on the fact their tracking software caught you downloading it, doesn’t mean you violated any law by downloading it.


37 posted on 05/14/2007 1:32:48 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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