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

["Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe(at)usg.com>]

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.
>