What are the legal implications of creating a CD from a vinyl album?
Assuming the copyright is still valid, are you required to destroy the
vinyl album to sell the CD? Is even this enough to permit sale of the
CD?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 01 Sep 2003 14:19 PDT

What nation's laws do you want us to consider?

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Clarification of Question by prat393-ga on 01 Sep 2003 14:25 PDT

The U.S., please.

Sorry for not saying that!

Here are a few items that may be of interest to you:

"Because copyright allows the copyright owner to determine how the
copyrighted work can be distributed, you can't legally give a copy
even in a different medium to someone else( you have no distribution
rights )."

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.4.21.0003272310400.251-100000%40krw.penguinpowered.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

"Making a copy in a different medium without appropriate authorization
would be a violation of the copyright owner’s rights, unless the
activity is excluded under other provisions of copyright law. The
making of one copy of a work in a different medium may not be a
copyright violation, but what you do or intend to do with that copy is
important."

http://its.noctrl.edu/tech_ethics/dmca_faq_faculty_staff.shtml#7

"...where you own the original LP or recording you are allowed to make
a copy onto a different medium e.g. CD/cassette tape where that
recording is for your own use.  It would not be legal to sell or give
that copy to anyone else for their use."

http://www.vinylreplica.com/general.html#what