Kosover Rebbe gives P'sak on CD copying
The Kosove Rebbe, HaRav Mendel Hager, gave a P'sak Halachah that is muttar to copy CD's for any use, even for distribution, as long as there was no money made from it. He said that there was no such thing as intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Torah, and therefore there was no Issur to copy CD's unless if it were for profit, which would then be Hasogas Gevul. He went on further to laugh at the Jewish music producers' Am Haratzas with their trying to circumvent the Halachah by leasing the CD's rather than selling them. He said that this method was both useless and a joke.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 3/13/2007 09:32:00 AM
