Divorcing..Splitting the cd collection..

Thanks for all the suggestions.I am a little smarter and certainly will start doing my homework.
There is no chance of kissing and making up.
We have mutually agreed on the division of everything except the cd collection.Our music tastes are identical so "you take what you like and I take what I like " will not work.
It took several years and thousands of $$$$$ to piece that collection together.We do not have any children so the cd collection became our "pride and joy" providing thousands of hours of listening pleasure.
As I stated my knowledge with ripping or copying music is very limited if not nil.
I have never owned a MP3 player ..IPOD ..whatever ...always paying for the cd..over a thousand.
If it was not for the break-up ripping or copying music would never have entered my mind.
So Pgawan2b cut me some slack .To date I have put alot of money into that hand.
Does it make copying music right ..NO...
Does it allow two close to retiring music lovers the chance to continue to enjoy something that took years to assemble...YES.....

Thefalls1117,

It's not simply a moral question of what is right or wrong...it's a legal issue - Copyright Act. If you do physically possess the software copy CD, then you are allowed to make copies for "fair use" for personal use by yourself. The Act stipulates it is illegal to make copies for others to use whether for profit or not.

Why don't you set up a visitation swap arrangement with the "X"?

Peace,
Lou

If you're retiring go get yourself a killer hifi system and give up the CD collection.

"If you do physically possess the software copy CD, then you are allowed to make copies for "fair use" for personal use by yourself."

I don't see the problem. Since they are currently married, they jointly own the cd collection and that ownership should extend to copies made for their personal use. After the divorce, I can't imagine any court ruling that one party should keep both copy and original because of copyright infringement.

my point has been missed. her attorney is going to split the 'property'...'the real items'....taking a picture of the dog, photocopying books or burning cd's means nothing. split 'em and be done with it.'...except for the dog of course.