RE: arsclist Gold Audio CDR

["Copeland, Peter" <Peter.Copeland@xxxxx>]

Dear All,
    Thanks, Mike, for illuminating the situation on the other side of the
pond. For the benefit of European readers, I should like to state that
copyright-paid CD-Rs here are labelled "For Music." This wonderful
weasel-word expression circumvents a problem which might occur under the
British Trades Descriptions Act. The correct expression *should* be "For
in-copyright published music, and in-copyright records, only." But then,
when copyright-paid blanks won't record the family baby, retailers could be
sued!
Peter
British Library National Sound Archive

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Richter [mailto:mrichter@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 May 2002 15:37
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: arsclist Gold Audio CDR

At 12:04 PM 5/13/2002 +0100, Copeland, Peter wrote:
>Dear All,
>     I regret Jerry does not seem to understand the situation here in
Europe.
>Most modern European "domestic" audio CD recorders refuse to record upon
>blanks which have not had a copyright royalty paid when they were sold.
>Therefore, gold Mitsui's (for example) cannot be recorded on them.
>     The only narrow possibility is as follows. The first domestic CD
>machines (sold a couple of years ago) could be fooled by the following
>procedure. Load a copyright-paid CD in the drawer, and allow the machine to
>read that the royalty has been paid. Then gently *pull the drawer open*,
and
>substitute an "ordinary" CD-R. Then push the drawer shut again.
>     This allowed a "domestic" CD recorder to record on either type of CD-R
>Audio blank.

Such "standalone" recorders are common in the U.S. as well - they are a 
blessing in keeping those who have trouble remembering which side of the 
blank goes up from fouling their computers. The designation required on 
discs for such machines is "Digital Audio".

Semi-professional standalone recorders are not so restricted and also 
relieve the constraint on multiple digital copies. As a result, premium 
media are not commonly designated Digital Audio. A relevant sidelight is 
that only older media formulations are appropriate for Digital Audio media. 
The machines are designed to record in real time from analogue input. 
Therefore, they must record at 1x, impossible for an HS erasable; almost 
certainly very poor if permitted at all for a typical write-once blank. 
Thus, there are both nominal (royalty) and practical (formulation) 
differences between the two types of media.

Mike

mrichter@xxxxxxx
http://www.mrichter.com/


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