Hi, Lou,
I think the difference between the studio and the library is that the
studio is being paid for doing the copying. What one can legally do at
home (copying your own music collection for personal use), the minute I
get paid for doing that, I become the pirate, so I am very careful with
these things.
I avoid copying tapes that are just copies of off-air music, or even
original LPs or tapes from a record label. I don't do MP3 copies of
music collections for clients.
I tell them I don't like wearing an eye patch and I'm afraid the parrot
would make a mess of my studio.
I do copy tapes when I'm asked by anyone associated with the recording
or for archives.
There are others who will make MP3 libraries for people from LPs, CDs,
and tapes.
Cheers,
Richard
On 2020-01-16 11:38 a.m., Lou Judson wrote:
> Hmm, interesting tale, but I wonder if it may be out of date by now.
>
> I’m not a library person, and this may be only a California thing, but a studio and duplication facility where I worked thru the 80s and 90s and 00s at one point had customers sign a form so that we (the studio) couldn’t get sued for working with copyrighted material. The boss took it to an extreme by making people sign even if we were duping their own CDs or tapes, if they were commercial release copies!
>
> I don’t know if that is still in effect, and the studio is out of business now (due to so many home recordists and streaming) but it is a thought…
>
> <L>
>
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