PrefaceAll use of TheLastRipper is on your own responsibility. The TheLastRipperTeam disclaims any responsibility for the use or abuse of the client, or any changes that it may cause to your system. Danish LawThe danish law is very unclear on this subject and therefore this is our interpretation of the copyright law. This means that this does not have to be completly correct and is only consultive. In denmark the law is, that it is not illegal to record music from the radio, but it needs to be for your own use only, you are not allowed to copy the music you rip or to give it to any of your friends. Only your household are allowed to use this music.
German LawThere has been a change in copyright law - now it is forbidden to download recognizeable illegal mp3's. So as long as last.fm (owned by CBS) is legal operating in Germany using TheLastRipper is also legal. But you should never share the ripped files with too many others, it is illegal to give them to more than some good friends. ContributeIf anyone, knows anything about copyright law in any country, TheLastRipperTeam would like to hear from you. It would help us and other users of this client a lot. If we think your information is relevant to the project, we will post your information at this site. |
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German law: following taken from https://club.tobit.com/login/mrd.asp?CategoryID=191/
"Der Mitschnitt von Radiosendungen zur privaten Nutzung ist als eine Form der Privatkopie erlaubt. So regelt es der §53 des deutschen Urheberrechtsgesetzes. Mitschnitte werden dabei keineswegs nur geduldet: Für diese Freiheit hat der Gesetzgeber eigens Pauschalabgaben auf Speichermedien und Geräte zur Vervielfältigung eingeführt, um die Vergütung der Künstler auch bei privaten Kopien sicherzustellen.
Sie bezahlen also längst für das, was Sie mit ClipInc?. tun können. Und das gleich mehrfach: Direkt über Ihre Rundfunkgebühren. Und indirekt über zum Teil erhebliche Abgaben beim Kauf von CD- und DVD-Rohlingen, Brennern, MP3-Playern, Handys und Konzerttickets, bei Public Viewing-Veranstaltungen, in Kaufhäusern und, und, und. Es gibt also überhaupt keinen Grund für ein schlechtes Gewissen. Im Gegenteil: Nutzen Sie, wofür Sie schon bezahlt haben! "
here the law: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__53.html
http://www.alterfalter.de/2007/10/26/internet-radio-lastfm-mitschneiden-mit-thelastripper-fuer-mac-windows-und-linux/
I'm a little confused about the laws against or for this in the states; according to the Audio Home Recording Act -- it is legal?
If someone knows better, let me know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act
I'm currently just a normal last.fm user; but might be more willing to utilize this application if it is completely legal.
In Poland - it's legal to download any music - it's just forbiden to share it. So use of TheLastRipper? is legal as long as you don't share mp3's over the internet. You can probably share those mp3's with family and friends - as long as they aren't available to the public (by use of BitTorrent? for instance) thanks to 'fair use' law - so if you use TheLastRipper? and send mp3's via email or upload on your FTP and give username and password to your family or friends - it's legal. But remember - I'm no lawyer!
IN SPAIN
It is legal to record music from Internet radio stations as long as the recording is for personal use only and it is not used to obtain any financial gain.
If it is so legal, why would the music owners bother going through Last.fm and not simply give the music away for free? It would be easier, no? Why don't you ask the musicians what they think? Strange that people spend so much time and money writing code to rip off tracks that cost at most 99 cents to buy.
In my country of residence I can't buy music for 99 cents... And most of the music I buy digitally I can't play since it's a trade secret how the data is transformed into sound waves (if you don't get that one, it means that they are made unplayable by Digital Restriction Management)...
who cares, ur isp won't even know what u're downloading coz ur streaming it (AFAIK). unless ur isp is very anal about what u dl and went out of their way to monitor u, i'd say u're in the clear.
if this a conscience thing, well u'll have to fight those demons urself. me, I just don't have any.
For those in the US....may find this useful.
First, the basic right of copying is outlined in section 1008:
§ 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Next, comes the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This is often used to stop distribution of certain copying programs. We don't circumvent any copy protection systems, nor do we claim that Replay Music is designed to circumvent copy protection systems (which it isn't).
Below is the important part of the DMCA as it relates to copying and circumventing copy protection systems:
§ 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems2
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that —
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
(3) As used in this subsection —
(A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Forgot to give credit...the above notes are from:
http://applian.com/replay-music/legal.php
After reading through this I do not believe there is anything illegal here with recording last fm, as long as you do not share it with anyone else and it is for your own personal use only, by delaying when you listen to it as I do, on my mp3 player.
Good to use recording radio stations as a loophole. If it closed, outrage would be through the roof!
I'd say it's not only perfectly legal, but recommended - if one can record TV programmes and choose when to see them there is nothing wrong with choosing when to listen your radio stations. This is 2009 and such facilities should be part of everyday lifestyle - people, help the bands you like by buying their albums, but sample as many as you want so you can have a wide selection base.
FWIW
About Music downloads in Colombia Here's the deal - you can download music from the Internet if it is for your own use, not intending to make any profit out if it. Here's a link to AFP news summarizing the Constitutional Court ruling on the subject (spanish): http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g985QDmxVSFxFysA2W760zZ2H3GQ
Why only 2 countries are listed? I wonder how it is in my country. Seems I need to conduct my own due diligence Ukraine or ask experts like these http://www.arzinger.ua/index.php?page=pract&id=16
Legal in USA! :D
Copyright is the interdiction to take someones work and copy it and tell you are the author. As long as I listen to a radio, and I save the art in any way to a file or to a paper, analog, digitally, by drawing, anyway, its no longer the artists work. It is a file I have been doing. I am the author. Lets admit Gioconda by Mussolini is copyrighted. If I paint a copy of it, its my art, not Mussolinis Art. The only thing I am not allowed to do is to say Mussolini has painted it.
That doesn't exactly work eichert... for that to apply you would have to re-record the song, play the instruments yourself and sing the words yourself. The difference is that you are cloning the work, not making your own version of it.