I originally posted this as a reply to another message (Woman fined $US220,000 for sharing 24 songs) and am posting it as a new topic... should have done that before.....
Don’t know in which section I should ask this question, but since the RIAA judgment is mentioned here, I hope this is the right place. I need an answer, and I’ve found a lot of info via Google, but nothing specific enough. I’m a tech for a Vermont company. The Executive Director wants to create a personal Christmas gift to give to each of our 25 employees as well as another organization (35 employees) which will be merging with ours in a few months. She’s decided to create a CD, and has asked each of our employees for their favorite song, the original intention being that she would download 25 songs from iTunes and make 70 CDs as gift. I went through iTunes Terms of Service with her which specifically mentions not distributing downloaded songs. Apple’s TOS says you can burn an audio playlist up to seven times, but it appears to me that this refers only to personal use. She’s decided simply to download more songs so that there are different sets of songs, and so that each song is burned only a max of seven times (rather than the original plan of burning one set of songs seventy times). This seems to be against Apple’s TOS and in light of the RIAA judgment of $220,000, I’m wondering if she’s asking for trouble. Comments would be helpful! She’s asked me to be the person who burns the 70 CDs and wants the project to start next week!! Thanks!
Edit by seaeagle: added link to other topic poster was referring to
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