[Publib] audiobooks and legality question

[Abigail Goben]

I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV....but I'm relatively sure that's
illegal.

If you have questions about Playaways, please feel free to email me. La
Crosse Public Library has had them for about 18 months now in
childrens/teen/ and adult with great success.




On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Joshua J. Carlson <jcarlson at midyork.org>wrote:

>  A sales rep recently suggested the following to me, and I’d like to know
> your opinion on the legality:
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> Background: I was asking about Playaways.
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> He said that we are allowed to keep 1 backup on CD of our audiobooks
> legally (?).  That because of this, rather than buying Playaways, he
> recommends purchasing audiobooks on CD, ripping them to MP3 format, and
> putting the MP3 version on a cheap MP3 player and circulating that (while
> keeping the CD version as the backup in house and non-circulating).  The
> rationale is that as long as we only ever circulate one copy (in other words
> not have multiple MP3 versions of the same 1 copy of an audiobook or
> circulate MP3 player version and CD version at the same time), it is legal.
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> What do you think?
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> Thanks in advance.
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