Media shifting your music is allowed under the Fiar Use doctrine.
This is also covered by Title 17 Chapter 10 Section 1008 of the United States Code. Title 17 of the USC covers copyrights.
This is also covered by Title 17 Chapter 10 Section 1008 of the United States Code. Title 17 of the USC covers copyrights.
Also from the RIAA vs. Diamonds Multimedia Systems court ruling.No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
[32] In fact, the Rio's operation is entirely consistent with the Act's main purpose - the facilitation of personal use. As the Senate Report explains, "[t]he purpose of [the Act]* is to ensure the right of consumers to make analog or digital audio recordings of copyrighted music for their private, noncommercial use." S. Rep. 102-294, at *86 (emphasis added). The Act does so through its home taping exemption, see 17 U.S.C. § 1008, which "protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings," H.R. Rep. 102-873(I), at *59. The Rio merely makes copies in order to render portable, or "space-shift," those files that already reside on a user's hard drive. Cf. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 455 (1984) (holding that "time-shifting" of copyrighted television shows with VCR's constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act, and thus is not an infringement). Such copying is paradigmatic noncommercial personal use entirely consistent with the purposes of the Act.While I do not know any court decisions regrading making a personal copy of music. My interpretation of 17 USC § 1008 along with the precedence set in the RIAA vs Diamond case and the Betamax decision lead me to believe that it is legal to make copies for personal noncommercial use. Moreover morally I believe that it only fair use to transfer from one media to the other.
*The act refers to the Audio Home recording act of 1992.