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Posted by Colin B on 02/07/07 01:12
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
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> "Colin B" <Colin B@cb.org> wrote in message
> news:45c83859$1@clear.net.nz...
>> Or asking the question more directly, can the owner of a copyrighted
>> protected DVD make one legal back-up copy of this DVD on whatever media
>> he chooses to do so?
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> There is no basis in copyright law for a "right" to make a back-up copy of
> a DVD. Time-shifting and media-shifting are examples of fair use defenses
> to infringement, but "backing up" is not.
So if a person were to copy a DVD on to another DVD, would this be illegal
because the media has not been "shifted" into a different type of media? Is
it safer, therefore, for a person who wants to watch copies of his DVDs
while on holiday (rather than taking the originals with him) to copy the
DVDs on to say, a laptop computer, rather than to make exact copies on other
DVDs?
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