Here in the UK, it's currently illegal - the High Court ruled in favour of the Musicians Union back 2015, and it's yet to be overturned (again).
The distinction is, that while it's NOT illegal to copy a CD to another format, it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it, be it music, spoken word, written documents, videos or photos etc.
Re:There Is No CD Revival
by judysjacket on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:51AM
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>it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it
That can't be true.
It would mean doing backups are effectively illegal (can only backup your own files, not programs or the OS or any other files not created by oneself)
Unfortunately it is true.
Explained in the last paragraph of this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_Kingdom
I don't know what the status is in the US, but copies for personal use are legal in the Netherlands. In fact, you actually pay a "private copying levy" for most devices capable of storing media (blank CDs, hard drives, phones, etc.)
Looks like there's something similar in a number of other European countries, but I don't know the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy