Wonder if the same applies to selling a video tape I recorded an HBO movie on and then sell it in a garage sale?
Yes, it does.
You have the right to remain silent..........
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You have been added to our database of serious copyright law violators. One of our associate attorneys will contact you soon with instructions on where to send your extor... er... settlement if you wish to avoid costly litigation.
Sincerely,
RIAA customer service
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>>>Wonder if the same applies to selling a video tape I recorded an HBO movie on and then sell it in a garage sale?<<<
From a pure, legal/technical sense, yes. But it's unlikely the MPAA is going to come after you if you do - unless you have a perpetual garage sale going on, and all you have to sell are recorded movies.
Wonder if the same applies to selling a video tape I recorded an HBO movie on and then sell it in a garage sale?
To add to your coming sleeplessness: Yes, in fact, the RIAA had agents visiting flea markets in this area for just that purpose. It made the newspaper. Of course, you don't have much to worry about if an ordinary person purchased the tape.
Fortunately the movie industry hasn't started to use shake-down tactics of the music industry.
Yes, actually.
And yes, it is ridiculous. But these weasels will do everything they can to hold on to the property they have unConstitutionally stolen from Americans. Why is it unconstitutional? Because the Constitution provides Congress with the power to set copyrights:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Anyone who thinks a copyright or patent should be extended to the terms currently alloted is not reading the clear intent of the law nor the early precedent in common law from which it derives.