<p>Is it legal to share electronic copies of music (e.g. through iTunes) with your family after you're in college? "Personal use" seems like sort of a vague distinction, and I can't really seem to get a clear answer anywhere as to whether it's fine to do this or whether I need to start my music library from scratch now.</p>
<p>Keep your music, dude.</p>
<p>I’m not 100% sure if it’s legal (I’ve often heard that making a burned CD of an album for your own use is illegal) but I’m 100% sure you would never get caught or even prosecuted for taking copies from your family home computer and putting it on your personal computer.</p>
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<p>Though the Music industry/RIAA love to make people think that…that’s not correct as that would directly contradict laws allowing “fair use” of music one bought for their personal use. </p>
<p>In fact, such laws do allow you to make one backup copy of your audio/video media. </p>
<p>Granted, companies making those audio/video DVDs aren’t under any obligation to facilitate this and recent trends in the legal world has been a tendency to chip away at the “fair use” protections given to consumers of audio/video media thanks to the lobbyist from the music/movie industries.</p>
<p>No, it is not legal.</p>