Copyright Information

Ever since the Internet became the black market for the illegal music downloads, the music copyright law has been subjected to public scrutiny, as well as extensive revisions and additional definitions. The Napster case started it all, the publicity attracted the TV camera hungry legislators and dozens of legislative measures were taken. From the relatively easy understandable copyright law, empowering the composer to control his work is a whole far-reaching law construed with bylaws and paragraphs to make the best lawyer dizzy. Was this really necessary? There has always been and will always be pirates selling illegal copies of music recordings. Back in the days, when there were no CDs, the records were still on vinyl and tape cassettes, we all made tapes of our favorite music and nobody got jailed for that. Today, if you make a copy of your own original CD, you may get prosecuted, if you download one song from the net, you may get a fine ranging from anywhere around ten thousand dollars to up to unlimited, depending how large the lawyer's fee is this week. It just happened that the IFPI, which is the primary organization hunting the pirates, chooses to focus on underage