Legalities of a Company Sponsored MP3 Repository?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 25, 2003 @06:15AM from the should-you-worry dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "At our company numerous people store MP3s on their local hard drives. Because we don't allow MP3's through email, and peer-to-peer file sharing programs, practically all of the MP3s are ripped from CD in the office. What is the liability for the company if it were to allow employees to place all ripped MP3s in a central location, that any employee could access? There would be practically no way to distribute the MP3s outside of the company, and it seems that this would be a legitimate practice that shouldn't open the company to liability (equivalent to providing the CD to a coworker). I'm wondering because I'd like to use this as a morale-booster at our company. I'm worried about the company being liable in some way as it would be company-supported. Does anyone have any feedback or experience with this?"

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fuck off by Ender+Ryan · 2003-03-25 06:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nowhere anywhere did anything relating to the current discussion say anything about distribution of music.
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