RE: [dvd-discuss] You can go swimming, but....

["Dean Sanchez" <DSanchez(at)fcci-group.com>]

That has been the argument that software companies have been using since they were able to persuade a technologically inept judiciary that, since a program had to be "copied" into memory and therefore required multiple "copies", it was really being licensed instead of sold. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hartman [mailto:hartman@onetouch.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:26 PM
To: 'dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu'
Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] You can go swimming, but....


The thing about DiVX was that it wasn't a purchase,
hence the contract involved.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Sanchez [mailto:DSanchez@fcci-group.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] You can go swimming, but....
> 
> 
> I would argue (probably unsuccessfully in today's climate 
> regarding IP) that you shouldn't be able to add additional 
> restrictions upon copyrighted material.  The act of 
> copyrighting implicitly invokes a social contract that limits 
> your ability to place such restrictions.  If you want such 
> restrictions, then don't copyright the material.  Protect it yourself.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hartman [mailto:hartman@onetouch.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: 'dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu'
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] You can go swimming, but....
> 
> 
> DiVX
> 
> The behavior you describe is just fine, as long as
> it is arranged by contract beforehand.
> 
> Without prior arrangement, though, the doctrine of
> first-sale (did I remember that correctly?) applies.
> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
> 
> 186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: PSYchiccr@aol.com [mailto:PSYchiccr@aol.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:47 AM
> > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] You can go swimming, but....
> > 
> > 
> > Surely when you purchase a DVD it come with the right to 
> > watch it. The right 
> > is to see the movie at any time you choose. It must be that 
> > you also have the 
> > right to take it to any place you go to and watch it there. 
> > The next step I 
> > am sure is that the DVD will only play X times before it self 
> > distracts and 
> > is no longer viewable.
> > 
>