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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
I want to supplement statements Yorick has made to clarify some things. If you own a copy of copyrighted works (such as CDs) you MAY make compilation CDs. For your own use, of course. Your ownership of ONE copy includes your right to make OTHER copies for your own enjoyment, including compilation discs that you enjoy.
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Not so Timber, at least not in Australia.
http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G070.pdf
What are the rights of the copyright owner?
The owner of copyright has a number of exclusive rights. These exclusive rights allow the copyright owner to control certain uses of their material. The copyright owner is the only person allowed to use, or give permission to others to use, their work in these ways. The exclusive rights of the copyright owner, depending on the type of material may include the right to:
reproduce the work in material form (including taping, digitising, videoing, and CD burning);
perform the work in public (including screening, reciting or performing the work outside a private and domestic setting);
communicate the work to the public (including broadcasting, emailing and putting the work on the Internet);
and adapt the work (including translating a work into a different language).
Using a CD burner to make a copy of material will “reproduce the work” for the purposes of copyright, as will making a tape from a CD, or copying a tape or copying vinyl records onto tape or CD.
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Private use
There is no exception in the Copyright Act that allows copyright material to be reproduced for private purposes without permission from the copyright owner.
There was at one stage an attempt to bring in a “blank tape levy” scheme in Australia, under which private taping of recorded music would have been made legal, with copyright owners receiving compensation through a small additional charge on blank tapes. The way the government at the time attempted to implement the scheme was, however, found to be unconstitutional by the High Court, and Australian governments have not made any further attempts to introduce a scheme which avoids the problems of the earlier attempt. Blank tape levy schemes operate
successfully in a number of other countries, particularly in Europe.