[BC] Re: Copyright and royalties

[Mike McCarthy]

It does not.

MM

At 07:45 AM 11/18/2005 -0800, Jim Wood, C.P.E.W. wrote
>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