An individual can make a copy of a CD or parts of a CD he/she owns for your own private, non-commercial use.

If an individual sells or gives away a copy of a copyrighted recording without the copyright owner's permission (the musician or the record company), that person may be prosecuted.

Downloading illegally distributed files from Internet sites such as www.limewire.com is piracy. We at Bangor Public Library request that you do not use our computers for illegal music downloading, as illegal downloading may not be in accordance with Title 17, Chapter 11 of the U.S. Code (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+17USC1101).

There are many sites on the Internet where a person can legally download music.  These sites either charge a monthly  subscription fee or offer a per track fee.  There are other sites at which downloading music has been made available for free by either the artist or the copyright holder.

Listed below are links to a few of the many legal downloading sites on the web:

Subscription

http://www.emusic.com/: Has a monthly subscription fee based on the number of downloads per month.

http://www.rhapsody.com/home.html: Has as a monthly subscription fee of $12.99 for access to the entire 1,000,000+ song Rhapsody catalog.

http://downloads.walmart.com/swap/: Wal-Mart's music can be downloaded for under $10 per album (for most albums) or just under $1 a song.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/: iTunes offers most songs for 99 cents.

http://www.myspace.com: Many artists with MySpace pages permit free downloading of a select number of songs.