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- From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
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- Subject: Re: Copyrights and piracy...
- Message-ID: <22056@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:11:14 GMT
- References: <21998@venera.isi.edu> <1992Jul23.174217.84@physc1.byu.edu>
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- In-reply-to: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu's message of 25 Jul 92 22:40:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.184052.24428@newstand.syr.edu> greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:
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- >In article <22024@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
- >>
- >>Technically, you can do what you want with the stuff you tape off of
- >>your TV, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T DISTRIBUTE IT.
- >
- >I'm not at all convinced that this is true (from a legal standpoint).
- >(See my previous post.) If you can provide statute or precedent supporting
- >this statement, I'd be interested in seeing it.
- >
- >You certainly can do *some* things, legally, such as "time shifting" of
- >programs. It does not follow from this, however, that you can do *anything*
- >that is not commercial in nature.
- >
-
- Perhaps my emphasis was incomplete. I was saying that YOU yourself
- can do what you will with your personal copy, so long as it doesn't
- become hundreds of other people's "personal" copy as well. You can
- wallpaper your bedroom with screenshots of Simpsons stuff and you're
- probably OK, as long as it's personal use of a personal copy of a
- tape.
-
- jas
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