Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights

[Noah silva <nsilva(at)atari-source.com>]

yes but saynig it that way, giving free copies to your friends is also
legal.  Currently that's not legal, and people kow that (and I can't
really argue that it should be, because that is a bit unfair from the
companies point of view.  Plus, everyone is a friend of someone).

I think reselling (or giving away) my copy, modified or not, is and should
be legal, private or not.

I think selling "copies" (i.e. more than I own) of something I own only
one copy of (or none!) is and should be illegal.

I think the producers should get paid for their work, I just think I
should have control over my copy.  If I want to modify it to be in color,
black and white, whatever, it's my copy, and that shouldn't bar me from
selling then, as long as it is known that I modified it.

 -- noah silva

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Michael A Rolenz wrote:

> "Why not just have public distribution be the crime?"
> 
> That's pretty much what Prof. Litman said about copyright. She pointed out 
> that public distribtuion is how people perceive copyright infringement but 
> the "intellectual property" industry views copying as the crime.
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> "Ernest Miller" <ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu>
> Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> 02/28/02 08:53 AM
> Please respond to dvd-discuss
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>         Subject:        Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights
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> Space shifting is generally legal and if you subtitled a movie that you 
> used
> yourself you probably would be fine.  However, distribute that movie and 
> you
> will get in trouble (having violated both copying and distribution 
> rights).
> 
> This, of course, is what does not make sense to me.  Copying is legal for
> personal use (mostly) but not if you distribute it.  Why not get rid of
> copying as a violation at all?  Why not just have public distribution be 
> the
> crime?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe@usg.com>
> To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:50 AM
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights
> 
> 
> > I thought space shifting was legal under fair use - or is doing so only
> > legal if you do it yourself and not as a service to someone else?
> >
> > Where I can see some problems coming up is in laws that guarantee that
> > works of art viewed in the manner that the artist originally intended.
> > (I seem to remember a discussion of a law in Florida, I think, on this
> > list sometime last spring maybe)
> >
> > -Charlie
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ernest Miller [mailto:ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:44 AM
> > > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights
> > >
> > > The subtitles would be a derivative work and illegal.  Copyright law
> > > prohibits copying.  If you make a copy and destroy the
> > > original, you still
> > > have violated copyright law.  I agree that this makes no
> > > sense, which is why
> > > I advocate eliminating the "right to copy" as part of copyright law.
> > >
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