RE: New bills to limit file copying/sharing.

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> "Under current copyright law
> <http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/109.html>, Americans who record a
> TV program or radio segment generally may "sell or otherwise dispose of"
> that analog recording or digital file as they wish.

If the author of this article really penned these lines, then he needs to
go back to the copyright woodshed.  The law says that if you _purchase a
legitimate copy_ of a copyrighted work, then you may generally sell or
otherwise dispose of that copy as you see fit.  The same is most certainly
_not_ true of copies made from on-air broadcasts.

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Rick Anderson
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