From: mishaksky@mediaone.net
Subject: Re: Rights?
Date: 5/8/2000 8:17:07 AM
To: 

>From: "Ponte, Kai" <kai@hershey.com>
> If I bought a tape or LP in, say 1983, and it has since been either stolen
> or melted, do I still own the rights to the album?  In other words, can I
> download a song by Def Leppard if I once owned the LP of Pyromania?  I
> bought it, right?

No, when you buy an album you aren't getting any rights to the songs, either
then or now, merely to ownership of the actual copy you have. Legally,
having one copy at one time doesn't entitle someone to have another copy
later on without payment for it. This applies, obviously, to many things --
books, computer software, etc.