At 3/25/2009 09:59 AM, Jesse Segovia wrote:
That brings up a good question - if I buy a sample CD
and fifteen years
later I try to contact the copyright owner and they are out of business, and
I make a good faith effort to find out who if anyone owns these rights but I
can't find anything, can I not distribute these samples for free to other
users? You may even have the right to sell them to anyone who wants to buy
them from you, but I assume that's not what you are trying to do.
I personally think that if a company isn't around anymore, then there
no real harm in making a couple of copies.
No loss of sales = no real victim.
While maybe not technically 100% legal, we need to apply common sense
now and again,
Dennis Barton <db(a)skylab2000.com>
Brainforest Productions, Los Angeles