[Commons-Law] Audio Format Shifting To Be OK'd In New Zealand

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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/03/22/233248.shtml?tid=126&tid=141&tid=188

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The New Zealand government is about to define a small part of the rights 
assumed by the 'fair use' clause in the Copyright Act 1994. Essentially 
they are going to protect the consumers' rights to convert media from 
one format to another for personal use, making it clearly legal to 
transfer tracks from a commercial CD to a mix-CD, MP3 player, PDA, PC, 
8-track, or tuned array of hummingbirds. NZ law already makes it clear 
that gifting or reselling items includes a transfer all of rights, 
including copyright, warantee, and licencing agreements, so providing 
your original is the genuine article you're not a criminal.

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