Hi guys, I have a question. I actually just burned my first cd today. This summer I plan to start working on my diploma and I wanted a cd of just the pieces that will be part of my program, which of course, is impossible to buy, and must be custom made. (RCM does not offer any such cd, as the diploma level syllabus enables us to choose from hundreds of pieces and make our own program). I also wanted my teacher to have the same cd, because she has never taught my pieces before, save one. So two of my friends emailed me the 9 pieces I needed. I used itunes to burn them. After reading this, what I did was very illegal, no? So what I should have done then, is spend a couple hundred dollars and buy a whack of cds to get the one piece off each one that I need, right? But then would it still be legal for me to take those cds and make my own by taking bits and pieces from each one? I'm confused and I'm feeling guilty. To give every one the royalties and whatnot that they deserve (even though no one is still alive except maybe 2), should I go and buy the cds and stick them on the shelf? Ack, what does everyone think?
Hi Christian, just muse this over the next time you feel guilty... not a penny of the roylties from Verdi's work (just think of all those operas for a start, day in, day out, the world over...) goes to his estate, but to the record company. I'm sure he'd be very proud.
Hi guys, I have a question. I actually just burned my first cd today. This summer I plan to start working on my diploma and I wanted a cd of just the pieces that will be part of my program, which of course, is impossible to buy, and must be custom made. (RCM does not offer any such cd, as the diploma level syllabus enables us to choose from hundreds of pieces and make our own program). I also wanted my teacher to have the same cd, because she has never taught my pieces before, save one. So two of my friends emailed me the 9 pieces I needed. I used itunes to burn them. After reading this, what I did was very illegal, no? So what I should have done then, is spend a couple hundred dollars and buy a whack of cds to get the one piece off each one that I need, right? But then would it still be legal for me to take those cds and make my own by taking bits and pieces from each one? I'm confused and I'm feeling guilty. To give every one the royalties and whatnot that they deserve (even though no one is still alive except maybe 2), should I go and buy the cds and stick them on the shelf? Ack, what does everyone think?
BTW yes it would be legal.
