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Grex Scruples Item 24: The tape
Entered by canis on Thu Jun 30 12:13:52 UTC 1994:

        In the past you met a local band at a free concert. You like the
        band so much you ask for a copy of a tape they made. After a 
        year or so the band makes it big. They get on MTv and have #1 
        hits. You still have the tape. When you met the guys they were
        really nice to you and you still keep in contact. 

        Do you make copies of the tape and sell, do you give copies away
        free, or do you just do nothing?

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by scg on Thu Jun 30 15:22:30 1994:

Keep listening to it and consider myself lucky to have such a rare tape
(that I couldn't legally sell, since they would still have the copyright
on it).  Maybe I would sell it several years down the road as a rare
artifact of this now classic band's pre fame years, but if they were still
alive I wouldn't do it without asking them first.

#2 of 14 by dang on Thu Jun 30 16:06:41 1994:

was the tape copyrighted, or was it homemade?

#3 of 14 by scg on Thu Jun 30 19:45:01 1994:

Even if it's home made, the copyright belongs to the people who made it.

#4 of 14 by dang on Fri Jul 1 15:28:31 1994:

i don't think so, at least not legally.  still, i probably wouldn't sell it.
i'm not the type.

#5 of 14 by scg on Fri Jul 1 15:30:38 1994:

At least I'm assuming the copyright on music is the same for written
stuff.  Anything that's written, even a phone message, is copyrighted by the
person who wrote it unless they give (or sell) that copyright to somebody
else.

#6 of 14 by dang on Fri Jul 1 17:02:27 1994:

i defer to your superior wisdom.  <g>

#7 of 14 by kimba on Fri Jul 1 17:48:05 1994:

I've had this happen, and since I LOVE having something no one else does, I
have only copied it for certain select individuals in exchange for something
equally as rare.  Same goes for bootleg concert tapes of already big bands.

#8 of 14 by popcorn on Sat Jul 2 23:19:01 1994:

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#9 of 14 by bonita on Tue Nov 15 18:32:26 1994:

If I was good friends with the band, then I would ask them if they would
mind if make a few copies of it for some very close friends.  If they
didn't want that they would probably give me some CDs to give away.

#10 of 14 by ewhisam on Wed Dec 27 23:38:14 1995:

Dunno

#11 of 14 by diznave on Sun Nov 9 06:55:28 1997:

I go over to the guys' house, and discuss it with them over bong hits and
quaaludes.

#12 of 14 by moonowl on Sun Dec 14 05:21:41 1997:

Well, I'd load it into the computer and then burn a nice CD. I'd ask the guys
in the band what they wanted me to do with the tape.

#13 of 14 by mrhappy on Thu Oct 29 20:39:41 1998:

I'd make a backup copy, and then do nothing.

#14 of 14 by lee on Fri Oct 30 01:39:34 1998:

Seeing tapes wear out faster I'd probably ask them if I could get a CD.

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