p2p news / p2pnet:- A bill for new copyright legislation that’s currently before the Finnish parliament wouldn’t make it illegal to copy music onto mp3 players for personal use, says the Helsingin Sanomat. However, if it’s passed, "it could set up a few obstacles,” it says, going on:

“Jukka Liedes, the Ministry of Education & Culture official who headed preparation of the proposed legislation, says that the breaking of copy protection for the copying of the content of a sound or video recording for personal use would be prohibited.

“At the same time, there would be no specific criminal sanctions for such an act, but a record company would be entitled to demand compensation for the illegal copying, if the matter came to light.”

But the “breaking of copy protection to allow the performance of an original CD or DVD (for example on another device in the home or car)” would be allowed.

Downloading “illegal music files” would be banned, “but once again this would not be subject to legal sanctions, according to Liedes,” says Helsingin Sanomatm adding”

“The copyright holder could nevertheless demand compensation from transgressors.”

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See:-
Helsingin Sanomat - Proposed new copyright law would allow personal copies of CDs, but with restrictions, September 8, 2005

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