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   From: ronald@forte-intl.com   
      
   CharlesH  writes:   
   > Darmok wrote:   
   >> Some folks may have taped it (or used a DVD recorder), but to *sell* a   
   >> copy would be against copyright regs.   
   >   
   > Copyright regs don't care if you sell an unauthorized copy or give it   
   > away; it's infringement either way. The theory is that even the free   
   > copy is denying the sale of a copy by the copyright holder, or his   
   > right to not make copies at all, or to sell to whom he wants, or   
   > whatever. That is where the term "copy right" came from.   
      
   Catch a clue... the copyright holder did sell the right to broadcast   
   it and the broadcaster recouped their money by selling advertising.   
   Every taped copy of an over-the-air broadcast is an authorized copy   
   since time-shifting is your fair-use right.  Sony Corp. of America   
   v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984)   
      
   What part of the copyright holder authorizing it for broadcast and the   
   law authorizing an individual to time-shift it don't you understand?   
   Time-shifting, by definition, involves making a copy.   
      
   If Paramount didn't want you to time-shift it for free, then they   
   should have gone direct to DVD instead of selling to broadcasters to   
   air it.   
      
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