The threat of prosecution for copying music from a CD onto a PC or MP3 player no longer hangs over UK music fans, as long as it is for their own use.
Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said that consumers can only be penalised if they make duplicate songs for other people.
"I want to make it unequivocally clear to the consumer that if they copy their CDs for their own private use in order to move the music from format to format we will not pursue them," Jamieson told the Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport.
