1-Are you allowed to copy a music cd from somebody else for your personal use if you know you would’nt buy the cd or is it geneiva?
2-Is it muttar to ride a scooter on shabbos?
Tizku Lmitzvos!
Answer:
1 CD’s and other forms of music may not be copied, even if one was not intending to purchase the CD.
2 It has become accepted custom to refrain from riding a bicycle on Shabbos, due to concerns of “uvdin dchol” weekday like activity, and due to the concern it may break and one would come to fix it on Shabbos. Small children may ride bikes, tricycles, scooters etc..
Sources:
1 One of the צשמט principle sources that addresses this question is Noda Biyehuda (Tinyana, Choshen Mishpat, no. 24). Although Divrei Malkiel (vol. 3, no. 157) severely limits the application of Noda Biyehuda’s ruling in a modern sense of intangible property, many poskim have written or issued rulings that uphold copyright legislation and extend it, by a number of halachic mechanisms (including laws of benefit, the principle of dina demalchusah, a prohibition of utilizing another’s expenditure at his loss, and others), to questions of intangibles. See also Techumin(vol. 6) which also discusses a similar case. See also torahlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Halachahbrura.pdf for an extensive discussion of the sources.
2 See Shu”t Yaskil Avdi Siman 19, Shi”t Sheilas Yaakov Siman 45, Tzitz Eliezer Vol. 16 Siman 30, SHu”t Rav Pealim Vol 1, O:C 25
