Tempted to throw away that old promo copy from a label?  UMG says that sort of action is “unauthorized distribution” and therefore illegal.  Read the details here.

So what happens when a radio station gives a promotion CD away and the winner turns around and sells it at a garage sale or tosses it in the trash?  Could the contest winner be sued as well?

Goodwill and Salvation Army better watch their backs!

This is so 1990’s.