Legality of Copying Music and Movies

Brian Goodrich of easybridge.com has looked at the legality of making copies of music and movies. Here’s what he found out:

• If you copy media and try to resell it, you are in trouble legally.

• Selling your CDs while keeping the backup it technically ilegal. It’s safer to delete any digital copies before selling the original physical version of the media.

• Purchasing a CD, burning the music and then returning the CD is illegal.

• Copying movies is illegal.

• Copying music to a cloud is legal unless it violates the terms of use agreement of the cloud service.

• It is normally legal to copy music to your computer as a backup precaution.

• Should you copy music to your computer and then transfer it to a portable music device, you’ve crossed the line unless you originally purchased the music.

• ITunes says customers can "make as many custom CDs asyou lik," but use of them is limited to personal, noncommercial usage.

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