[BC] Re: Copyright and royalties

[Jim Wood, C.P.E.W.]

Danny Ray Boyer notes:

> If you buy media that is designated "CD/R Music", you are
> paying extra for a royality payment. If you buy plain vanilla
> CD/R's, then you are not.

    I wonder if that means that, if I take the tunes downloaded from 
Microsoft, Napster or Wal-Mart, strip the license info that came with the 
WMF files (which prevents more than a certain amount of file transfer), and 
use the 'prepaid' CD/R Music blanks, can I burn as many CDs as I like and 
give them to friends?  (Not that they share my taste in music, but...)  In 
other words, what does this royalty prepayment imply?

Jim Wood
Brea, CA