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

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

I agree, I don't even think it would be a material change, but the wording
would be more clear, so as to stop some suites before they start

Or you could distribute patches like I suggested.  This is difficult to do
with analog media though.

 -- noah silva

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ernest Miller wrote:

> 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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