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Originally Posted by Catlady
So ... are you folks saying that when I cleaned up my old LPs and turned them into CDs and/or mp3 files, I had some actual legal obligation to keep the LPs? Or when I converted my VHS tapes to DVDs, I was supposed to keep the tapes piled up in the closet? Or if I scan a book, I'm supposed to hold on to the paper copy?
Why? Either legally or from a commonsense perspective, why?
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There's no necessity to keep them, but you certainly can't give them away or sell them, because that you'd have paid for one copy, but both you and the recipient would end up with copies. Doing the format conversion and then destroying the original is fine.