On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Barb Engvall wrote:
> Slightly off topic, I am having a discussion with some friends about
> the legality of copying videos to DVD at home for home use. Does the
> phrase that we see in school copyright regarding changing formats
> (...if replacements are unavailable at a fair price or are available
> only in obsolete formats) apply to home users? I know of a number of
> folks who are copying all of their videos over to DVD when the videos
> are available in DVD format already. Neither are obsolete formats. I am
> trying to convince them that technically this is illegal because they
> are changing formats, but since it is for home use they say they are ok
> under Fair Use. I am also trying to impress upon them that if they do
> this they need to retain the original and cannot give or sell the
> original.
Good question. When I was younger, we copied albums onto cassettes to use
in the car - and I thought that was given an okay when the cassette was to
be used only by the owner. I'd like ot learn more.
On a sidenote, I had a teaching assistant show up at school one day with a
bag full of illegally copied movies. She'd paid her pastor $5 for each
one. Apparently he had quite a booming little business going selling
those dvds. The assistant had plans to re-sell them to kids but ran into
me first. I told her to tell her pastor he was setting a pretty poor
example! I wonder if she ever did....
J. Rathbun, Librarian
Mojave High School
Clark County School District
Las Vegas, Nevada
Email: jrathbun@orednet.org
http://ccsd.net/schools/mojave/library
Leave it to Beaver was not a documentary.
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