To: MineralMan
I agree. However, I think there should be a way for parents to get sanitized DVDs without the permission of Hollywood. There should be a way to get there. Another judge may have got there with my argument that there is no distinction between having a buyer take a DVD to an editor (even if it is costly) versus just buying it already added to the DVD with the knowledge of the buyer that it was going to be added before the purchase. As long as each original is paid for in full, there should be no distinction for using a master to make sanitized copies for resell and destroying each original.
287 posted on
07/10/2006 10:59:01 AM PDT by
Hendrix
To: Hendrix
"As long as each original is paid for in full, there should be no distinction for using a master to make sanitized copies for resell and destroying each original.
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The trouble comes from the third party making and using an edited copy of the movie to make copies for customers, then charging them for the service. His edited master copy is illegal on its face, under current laws.
Copyright controls the process of making copies. That's what it controls. The commercial bowdlerizer's copy of the edited movie is simply illegal.
289 posted on
07/10/2006 11:02:08 AM PDT by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
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