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

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

Yes but this is a bit different in that a specific PERSON _WANTS_ to view
it differently.  Would you arrest him for putting cranberry saran wrap
over his TV to see it in a redish tinge?  The case you are referring to
below had to do with sculted works on public display iirc.

 -- noah silva 

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ballowe, Charles wrote:

> 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.
> > 
>