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

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Bauer [mailto:jfbauer@comcast.net]
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> 
> Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com> wrote:
> >
> >It might be a violation of copyright to take something and 
> sub-title it
> >and re-release it (I would think it would be!). 
> 
> Would it be a violation to sell a sub-titled version if you
> bought and destroyed an original for every sub-titled copy
> you distributed?
> 

If you have license to a copy, and the right to do what
you wish with your own copy, then that plan should work.

It is similar to a plan executed by someone who was fed
up w/ all the (unnecessary) sex in movies.  He offered
a service whereby he edited a movie to make a clean version.
IIRC either the customer had to send in their copy of
the tape to be edited, or they bought a copy from him
(as they would from any other reseller) that he had already
edited.  He did not _make_ copies, he edited existing
ones.


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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!