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Originally Posted by DemonEyezs
Hey, first post. Woot.
Cool website btw, liking it, like the discussions, gonna stick around.
I found mp3sparks which lead me here, but I wanted to know if anyone had figured out if the use of mp3sparks was legal in the US? Id be nice to know before I dish out alot of moolah on it.
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Buying music from allofmp3sparkstunes or any other foreign music store has yet to be proven legal or illegal. If you really think about it you are basically going to another country (via your data traveling through the various routers and wires that take you to another country) and buying a sond/cd. You then go back to your own country with the cd.
According to Title 17 Chapter 6 Sec. 602 of the USC:
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(a) Importation into the United States, without the authority of the owner of copyright under this title, of copies or phonorecords of a work that have been acquired outside the United States is an infringement of the exclusive right to distribute copies or phonorecords under section 106, actionable under section 501. This subsection does not apply to —
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(2) importation, for the private use of the importer and not for distribution, by any person with respect to no more than one copy or phonorecord of any one work at any one time, or by any person arriving from outside the United States with respect to copies or phonorecords forming part of such person's personal baggage;
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So if mp3s, oggs, etc. are considered a phonographic record, then it is legal to buy them for personal use. If not, then no import laws apply and you can do whatever you want with them. Either way, it is legal for at least personal use of the songs (which is what almost all people use it for).