Once it becomes a DIGITAL item, the digital copyright act becomes a part of the equation. And i am certain it is not legal to transfer a digital copy of an item. Period.
I most certainly will not land you in jail, today. but the fact of doing it opens you to all sorts of theoretical problems lawyers love to charge big bucks saving your butt from.
One cannot resell a digital copy, even if you bought it, under the current act.
Loaning a digital copy is also verboten. (loaning the original download is OK, but only if it is still in the form and equipment you downloaded it to. so you would have to give the harddrive, or original files container of whatever sort to the other person, and even that is iffy.
And even if you made the copy, you do not own the copyright to the music.
Fair use is pretty much an unknown with digital stuff, and considering the DIRE penalites in the digital copyright act, i would be pretty quiet about doing anything.
I am not a lawyer.
I most certainly will not land you in jail, today. but the fact of doing it opens you to all sorts of theoretical problems lawyers love to charge big bucks saving your butt from.
One cannot resell a digital copy, even if you bought it, under the current act.
Loaning a digital copy is also verboten. (loaning the original download is OK, but only if it is still in the form and equipment you downloaded it to. so you would have to give the harddrive, or original files container of whatever sort to the other person, and even that is iffy.
And even if you made the copy, you do not own the copyright to the music.
Fair use is pretty much an unknown with digital stuff, and considering the DIRE penalites in the digital copyright act, i would be pretty quiet about doing anything.
I am not a lawyer.