I like to consider myself pretty decent at beatgridding and warping tracks in Traktor and Ableton Live as well as ID3 tagging, normalising and key detecting. A few of my friends take advantage of my anal'ness and ask me to do all this tedious work to their collections so they don't have to.
If I were to offer a more public service whereby I would take someones collection (they would have to FTP or send me a cd) and do all the beatgrids, cue markers, warping, key detecting, etc etc for them, would I be on dodgy ground legally?
Since I'm not actually keeping copies of the music, there's been no 'theft', but it is unathorised (temporary) copying. I suppose its a similar argument to the '2nd hand mp3' sales you see on ebay sometimes (someone selling their legally acquired beatport mp3s because they no longer want them). In the these days of digital media, what do we actually 'own'? Can you actually 'own' (or copyright) a collection of 1's and 0's?
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