Radio Gaga Records Internet Radio, But Is It Legal?
4:41 am, August 19th, 2009, Giles Turnbull
Another screencast for your information and entertainment. If you want to know more, you can grab a copy of Radio Gaga from here.
And that station playing French pop from the 50s and 60s is Radio Oh-la-la, and if you couldn’t listen to it for free on the web, it’d almost be worth buying Radio Gaga for that alone. Maybe.
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If it’s just for personal use then it should be covered by the “fair use” doctrine. Way back in the dark age of cassettes, radio and record makers tried to sue people for making copies of radio shows and their own albums. The courts rules it was fair for the listener to make a duplicate recording – or the more popular mix tape – of records, so long as it was not given or sold to anyone else. Radio lost twice. First in this case and then later with VCRs, which established time-shifting as fair use.
Since Podcasting is simply another delivery system of the same product like satellite or TiVo, it’s unlikely this falls outside of current fair use rules.
imajoebob, on August 19th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I agree with the above post that one can make an analogy to the “fair use” doctrine. Still, as of now, this area of law is unsettled. Back in 2007 the RIAA was still poking a sharp stick at Web radio regarding “fair use” and other legal issues for recording streaming content. See http://mind.ofdan.ca/?p=877
Aaron A. Pelley, on August 19th, 2009 at 4:24 pm