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Old November 28th, 2003
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Originally posted by backmann
It is the song that is copyrighted. It does not matter if you took it from a CD or a cassette (not even your own). You can't reproduce it without legal consentment from the author.
It depends on the law of your homecountry. In Germany you are allowed to copy CDs, cassettes, etc for private use but you arenīt allowed to crack the copy protection... so in Germany it would be no problem.

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Ask www.google.com for more information about the law of your homecountry.

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