Tapes/copyright (semi-OT) and the joy of HP on Audio

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 1909

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Tandy, Heidi" 
<heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:

use - so here's my > I Am A Copyright Lawyer comment on the issues:> 
3. You can make a copy of a cd or tape or record for your OWN use, but
> cannot give that copy to someone else. I once read an article where 

So it sounds as though I could take my HP cassette tapes and get a 
friend to burn them onto CDs so that I could continue to play them in 
my new car which will have a CD player but no cassette player without 
having to reinvest in all four books on CD.

HOWEVER, I could not then give or sell the cassettes legally to 
anyone else.  I have to keep them as an archival form.  sorry Brooks.

On the other hand, another friend pointed out that a cassette to CD 
transfer would take time, money for the writable CDs and produce a 
product with a fair amount of hiss.  Plus, unless cd players now come 
with a memory of where on the CD you are, I would need to relocate 
the place each time I started the car or babysit the transfer 
creating my own CD sections.  Hmm, when all is said and done, it 
might not be worth the time, expense etc.

If the CDs were available at Sams or another store as a discount as 
good as the discount on the cassettes, I would just reinvest in them 
on CD.  Thus far, however, neither Brooks nor I have found any great 
discounts on the CDs.  They are definitely harder to find and more 
expensive.

I am going to have to do something, as I love listening to the tapes 
in the car.  Jim Dale does such a great job as a dramatic reading and 
really adds to the book.  When book five comes out, I will definitely 
buy it both in book and CD form and would highly recommend them to 
anyone who spends much time in their car by themselves.

There was a brief discussion several weeks ago on Jim Dale v. the 
English reader of the tapes, and I have to say now that, IMO, Jim 
Dale wins hands down.  My Dad bought books one and two on tape in 
England (which is astonishing in and of itself) and that is how I had 
the English book one to listen to on tape.  The English reader is 
decent, even good at some characters, but his female voices are very 
bad and overall Jim Dale does a much better dramatic rendition of the 
books.  The one thing the English version has is the correct title of 
the book (IMO) and the correct pronunciation of Hermione.  The 
English reader is easy for an american ear to understand; there is no 
accent problem at all, but he just doesn't do it as well as Jim Dale 
did it.  If you are given a choice, I recommend you buy the Jim Dale 
audio tapes over the English audio tapes.


Vicki