When states had official censor boards (and Baltimore had one that DID cut films into the 1980s and England STILL cuts films although their bans seem to be lifting), did they "violate copyright"?
The copyright violation would appear to be ANYTIME you rent a DVD to someone else. Read the opening screen. How many stores get "authorization" to rent titles?
Yes, if there was no provision in the law allowing them to do it, unless their "cutting" was telling the copyright holder what he had to do to his own film before it could be released.
The copyright violation would appear to be ANYTIME you rent a DVD to someone else.
Nope. Rental outlets have a license to rent the movies (the movies, not unauthorized edits of them).
How many stores get "authorization" to rent titles?
All of them, unless they're operating illegally. They pay a high per-copy price for that privilege. That's why replacement costs for lost movies are higher than what you'd pay to purchase a movie at the local store.