Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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In the US, the legality of recording someone without their knowlede is determined by state law. In most states, it's legal to record a conversation if one party (it could be the person making the recording) knows. In Maryland, for example, where Linda Tripp lived, it's legal to record a conversation with Monical Lewinsky without her knowledge, IIRC. In some states, all parties must have been notified. That's why when you call your bank they tell you while you're on hold that the call may be recorded.