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Copyright
As an individual, you would find it very convenient if you could just print all the banknotes you needed. Provided your requirements were modest, your counterfeit notes would have a negligible effect on the national economy. But if many people could do the same, our whole monetary system would soon be in chaos.
Much the same applies to music. It is an offence to perform records in public without the appropriate licences. And strictly speaking, anyone outside your family — even neighbours and friends — represent a public audience. Until the law is better defined, you must consider it a technical offence to record anything from the radio. There seems little harm in recording a broadcast in the morning for playback at a more convenient hour in the evening. But it is understandable that you should be discouraged from freely recording for long-term storage, least of all for public performance. If such practices became general, sales of gramophone records would slump, live performances would become uneconomical and composers' royalties would dwindle. In fact the whole economy of music would be prejudiced.
What Copyright Is
Any work of art, such as a book or piece of music, is automatically protected by copyright. This means that it cannot be printed or in any way used to earn money except with the approval of the author or composer. By the same token, it must not be used, even without earning money, in a way which will prejudice its ability to earn money. Also, since the author or composer must earn a living, he expects
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