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Originally Posted by nerys
I CAN however RESELL those copies if I sell an ORIGINAL copy with each. so if I BUY an object and hack it up I can then SELL that copy. If I buy 10 CD's and make a Custom MIX set out of some of the songs on those disc you bet your butt I can sell that mix disc as long as I INCLUDE each disk I sourced it from WITH the "mix" disc. this is PERFECTLY LEGAL.
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Actually, that's incorrect, by selling your mix disc, you are violating the copyright laws in the US (note this has nothing to do with property rights at all). Why, you ask? Simply because the album as a whole is registered as a single "work", and you, by creating a mix disk, are creating a "derivative work" based on the original work, which is illegal to distribute if you have not been given the rights to distribute derivative works by the copyright holder.
You're welcome to resell the original (although the recording, print, and movie industries at one point lobbied heavily to try restrict these rights too. they even wanted to make movie rental illegal, and CD rental _is_ illegal (
Relevant law ), but you may not sell any derivative works without the original copyright holder's consent.
Note also that the copyright holder has "exclusive rights" to making photocopies of books. Even if you do not sell or distribute photocopies you make, you are still breaking the law just by making them.