Judge says sharing music over the Internet is not a crime in Spain

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Judge says sharing music over the Internet is not a crime in Spain
By h.b. - Nov 2, 2006 - 7:23 AM

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A Santander judge has released a man who was facing a two year prison sentence for downloading and sharing music over the net
The judge in Penal Court 3 in Santander, Paz Aldecoa, has ruled that downloading music on the Internet is not a crime, provided that it is not done to make money.

The judge found a 48 year old Internet user not guilty, after he was facing demands from the prosecution for a two year prison sentence and 7,200 € fine for downloading and sharing music over the web.

The judge considered that article 31 of the Intellectual Property Law in Spain established the right of the public to obtain copies of music without permission of the author, provided they were for private use and no profit was made.

Comments

Craig
02 Nov 2006, 11:02

Good, because i wouldn't want to think that people were making money from music. Would you?

Fred
02 Nov 2006, 14:08

Nice to see typicalspanish being so on the ball; this story broke two months ago:

http://www.dominiuris.es/?id=247&seccion=&materias=

Fred
02 Nov 2006, 14:14

Even more on the story: http://www.filmica.com/david_bravo/archivos/004472.html

Hardly "yesterday", as the above article suggests.

C'mon typicallyspanish, you guys do this a lot - this isn't news!

typicallyspanish newsteam
02 Nov 2006, 17:32

This is weird. The story is on the front page of ABC newspaper today and also today in El Mundo
http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2006/11/01/tecnologia/1162383709.html

We confess to having missed it first time round!

Fred
03 Nov 2006, 16:18

Yes, and now the Guardian has picked up on it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1938301,00.html

All I did was search for the name of the judge and the word 'mp3'.

The same thing happened when you guys wrote about Columbus's remains being confirmed as belonging to him. You covered that about two months ago, but the story broke in May, I believe.

typicallyspanish newsteam
04 Nov 2006, 10:09

Mas vale tarde que nunca

Fred
17 Nov 2006, 05:32

" Mas vale tarde que nunca"

What a great philosophy for a news site to have. I'd love to see the BBC or NY Times take such an approach. Actually, I wouldn't.

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