Any copyright lawyers lurking?

Thanks for the replies. My initial feelings on this issue were closest to what Elizabeth so eloquently stated. I originally told my buddy that he could bring his albums over and record them for his use only. It does create an ironic inflection point whereby fair use of the purchased analog record could/might be superceded by the Digital Copyright Act...or vice versa. Who knows and I assure you I don't care enough about this potential pitfall to be a test case!

Thanks all

If your friend already has a copy of the product, why would he need yours? Just asking. I'm not an attorney, but if I were, I would start there.

Mike, excellent question. He has a decent copy of "Green Street" by Grant Green on Blue Note. A good recording on decent vinyl....several scratches but nothing out of the ordinary. I have the Hoffman/Gray Acoustech remastered reissue from Blue note on 200g vinyl 45 rpm. I ripped my copy to my computer using DSD and then ripped it down to multiple sample rates to see if I could hear a material difference. I enlisted his ears to assist me....not really a blind test but he didnt know which version was playing. He was astounded at every sample rate and asked me to give him the files. We then discussed the slippery slope. We jointly surmised that to follow the letter of the law, he would need to "borrow" my album and its "digital archive" for evaluation in his system.

Now i have no intention of distributing digital copies of my music to anyone but i dont see anything wrong with loaning them mine or assisting them by recording their album. In this case what really caused me to pause, and a key fact that i intentionally did not mention initially in this posting, was that I would believe my remastered Grant Green album to be a "different" recording than what he has. It just started me thinking and i thought i would pose the question to the audiophile community and get some broad, generic input. Regards

Sounds like a great rip. It should be posted to the "Green Monster"

I think the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is supposed to cover more modern techniques available. A lot on Google about it. From what I remember, you can make a digital copy for yourself. When I bought my CD recorders, and they let you make a bit perfect copy for yourself. Those recorders use CD-R music discs, and a digital copy cannot be made from it. They have a copy guard. Commercial recorders don't! These use the standard CD-R data discs that are cheaper (no copy-guard), and a digital copy can be made from it (copy of a copy) in digital I believe. We pay more for the CD-R music with copy-guard too. Giving it away may be risky. Money made makes it a nightmare for you. I wouldn't give any away myself. They may still be litigating over defining the laws. Play it safe. I'm not a lawyer. Now they want us to download it for direct profit, and if your harddrive goes bad, mechanical or solid state, they get to sell you everything again. Stockpile. Turn into a CD/record hoarder. LOL. Play it safe. I'm not a lawyer, and may be crazy.