Spring Cleaning The Collection

[Veronika]

I completely see your point. I think that I should be allowed to burn a disc that I have purchased (or was given as a gift) to a hard drive and play as I wish. It is more problematic if I borrow from a library. In the future something like the Naxos library will probably be universal.

I agree about burning a copy of one's own discs. Personally I wouldn't copy anything borrowed from a library. Online library subscriptions would solve it, though you'd always have to have internet connection - I'm old enough not to count on that. :)

[Dave2002]

I agree with you. It's the same with photography ("pictures are free" or "I found it on Google so it's free" or "you just pressed a shutter to get this picture, how difficult/expensive is that?") - it's getting more and more difficult to get even a return on expenses unless you are shooting weddings and commercial. And even there... there area lot of people willing to give their work away for free. Sorry, gone a bit OT here, but having once considered photography as my plan B, I am naturally very disillusioned - and copyright-aware...

Photography opens another can of worms. First, as you say, professional photographers can be ripped off. Others can, too, at least potentially. If an amateur takes a photo, and out of convenience puts it up on a photo site, even as a "private" document for family and friends, what's to stop the hosting site sellng the good ones on? I know they say they won't etc., and possibly most are true to that, but there's perhaps not a lot which could be done if that situation arose. I'd be wary of putting up my very best shots, though on the whole I'm reasonably happy to share photos with the world, but I assume that if I do upload anything it will or could be used by others, whether I authorise it or not.

[Karafan]

I never cull (though my friend Akiralx frequently took the axe to his large collection).

I do sell/replace discs usually when I am tempted to buy a remastered version of the same recording (oft heard refrain to the OH: "but *look* it's been Original Image-Bit Processed AND features the original album artwork!!).

What I do seem to be doing is misplacing or otherwise "losing" CDs, as the collection has long ceased to be adequately housed on shelves and boxes dotted around the attic have, of late, seemed relcutant on occasion to yield the treasure I have set off to locate! Damn! Then it's reluctantly back to that damned basket up the Amazon!

[Veronika]

Photography opens another can of worms. First, as you say, professional photographers can be ripped off. Others can, too, at least potentially. If an amateur takes a photo, and out of convenience puts it up on a photo site, even as a "private" document for family and friends, what's to stop the hosting site sellng the good ones on?

The law. Not that they don't try it on, of course - Instagram comes to mind, or the FB attempted rights grab.

I know they say they won't etc., and possibly most are true to that, but there's perhaps not a lot which could be done if that situation arose.

Well, Instagram did back down and so did FB and Dropbox changed their ToCs, if I recall correctly. Then there's ImageRights, a company that will try to get infringers pay. But if it's just a blogger stealing an image, there realistically isn't much you can do - although there's been a change and now you can take infringers to the small claims court in the UK (I *think*).

I'd be wary of putting up my very best shots, though on the whole I'm reasonably happy to share photos with the world, but I assume that if I do upload anything it will or could be used by others, whether I authorise it or not.

Indeed, anything you upload has the potential to be stolen. Not uploading your best shots creates another problem, though - if you are a photographer, do you want the world to see your second-best shots? (But yes, I've stopped uploading to Flickr.)

[Jonathan]

I sometimes get rid of the odd CD (or at least decide I am going to ) and then put them all on eBay at the same time. I used to sell most of them but these days most don't even get anyone "watching" them. Despite my sarcastic remark on an Alkan CD I put up for sale recently about it being 2/3rds the price it was on Amazon, it didn't sell.

I tend to have a cull a couple of times a year but the core material remains and is added to...(need another CD holder but need to install rubber walls to the house to fit everything in!)

[EdgeleyRob]

I sometimes get rid of the odd CD (or at least decide I am going to ) and then put them all on eBay at the same time. I used to sell most of them but these days most don't even get anyone "watching" them. Despite my sarcastic remark on an Alkan CD I put up for sale recently about it being 2/3rds the price it was on Amazon, it didn't sell.

I tend to have a cull a couple of times a year but the core material remains and is added to...(need another CD holder but need to install rubber walls to the house to fit everything in!)

How could you ?