[HANASHIR:4124] Re: Universal Jewish Music License

[BEBWH <BEBWH...>]

Sorry, I just downloaded AOL 5.0 and it seems to be a little trigger happy on 
the repley/send buttons. I meant to add to Ellens' comments on teaching 
Kavod, that there is another implication to duplicating music which is a 
Halachic issue of Genayva, stealing. Kavod is certainly an important Middah 
which we should be aware of all the time. However Genayva is one of the top 
ten Lo Ta-aseh (Thou shalt Not) commandments straight from the Torah as 
opposed to a Rabbinic ruling. There is no question that duplicating written 
or recorded music falls into this catagory. If you look at many cassettes 
produced by Orthodox sources (and PLEASE, this is not said to provoke any 
value judgments or discussion as to who is or who is not) you will find that 
many say something like " please do not play this tape on Shabbos and Yom 
Tov, Duplication without permission is a violation of Halacha and Civil law." 
Some us may not be comfortable with both sections of this statement but the 
second part of it should be pretty easy to deal with. I realize this does not 
encode the tape and prohibit the duplication but it does make people think 
twice. I'd be curious how many of us have seen this statement and thought it 
helps.

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