Reply To: Copying Music Redux

apushatayid

Member

“The guideline here involves whether or not what you’re doing is taking away a sale from the owner.”

In which case, that further makes my conclusion described in the OP.

charliehall

Member

“It still violates secular law — it is considered theft. The copyright owner may have a reason for withdrawing the item from the market and we should respect that.”

Two points. One, Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita (as quoted above by Daas Yochid) disagrees with you. He maintains it it permissible to copy music no longer on the market. Two, secular law has fair use provision that allow copying copyrighted music under certain circumstances.