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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 4749465" data-attributes="member: 18549">I'm led to believe that in the U.S., if a friend of yours lends you a CD, and you make a copy of that CD, you're in violation of the law.&nbsp; The CD is copyrighted, and by duplicating it you're violating that copyright.Now, that's not the case where I live.&nbsp; We pay a levy on all our blank media that covers exactly that sort of use.&nbsp; The money goes to the recording industry, and we retain the right to make mix tapes for our friends.So the question of whether you can &quot;lend out&quot; data is really a question of which country you happen to reside within.&nbsp; If it is legal to pass around media to close friends and family where this guy lives, then it's legal.&nbsp; If he did that, and one of his friends then stuck the file on the internet, then his friend is in violation of the law, and not this guy.We do not know whether it is legal to distribute media in the way he describes.&nbsp; That means we do not know that it is illegal.&nbsp; We'll have to wait for an expert in Polish copyright law to come on and inform us.&nbsp; So there's no sense pontificating about how there's a difference between lending a book and lending an e-book if you don't know what the pertaining laws are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 4749465, member: 18549"] I'm led to believe that in the U.S., if a friend of yours lends you a CD, and you make a copy of that CD, you're in violation of the law. The CD is copyrighted, and by duplicating it you're violating that copyright. Now, that's not the case where I live. We pay a levy on all our blank media that covers exactly that sort of use. The money goes to the recording industry, and we retain the right to make mix tapes for our friends. So the question of whether you can "lend out" data is really a question of which country you happen to reside within. If it is legal to pass around media to close friends and family where this guy lives, then it's legal. If he did that, and one of his friends then stuck the file on the internet, then his friend is in violation of the law, and not this guy. We do not know whether it is legal to distribute media in the way he describes. That means we do not know that it is illegal. We'll have to wait for an expert in Polish copyright law to come on and inform us. So there's no sense pontificating about how there's a difference between lending a book and lending an e-book [i]if you don't know what the pertaining laws are[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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