Re: [dvd-discuss] Felten Opp to DoJ Motion to Dismiss

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

"Time shifting" and "space shifting" are only two attributes. So why is 
"digital different"? and why is it even winding its way through the courts 
if the courts recognize it? They don't quite see the whole picture yet 
because they are fixated upon the media and in the case of the Internet 
where the media is and isn't.




Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>
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> key point in copyright which the courts have missed. Namely, the 
copyright 

I don't think the courts have missed it, consumers have had the recognized
right of "time shifting" (recording to watch later) and "space
shifting" (copying from one media to another" for quite some time.

> is upon the fixation of the idea but NOT the media in which it is fixed. 

> When I purchase  a copy in any media, I gain the right to possess a copy 

> IN ANY MEDIA.  That the types of media has increased ten fold in the 
20th 
> century and the subsequent resale of works in new media has caused 
> confusion of the media with the copyright. To mangle Marshall 
Macluen-The 
> media is not the message.

-- noah silva