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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, I'm sorry, but that very specifically is a matter of "Fair Use", and when video recorders first appeared, movie studios tried to get them outlawed under copyright law on the grounds that the recording of copyrighted TV shows was an imfringement. The court case which decided the matter was the decision of the US Supreme Court:
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
which ruled that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for purposes of time-shifting does not constitute copyright infringement, but is fair use. The Court also ruled that the manufacturers of home video recording devices cannot be liable for infringement.
This Supreme Court decision established the general legal principle, which has been applied more recently in file sharing court cases, that a device which has the capability of being used for copyright-infringement purposes can be legally used if it can be shown that it also has significant non-infringing uses.
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Yeah well, you haven't provided a link, and therefore I can't read it for myself and check if you're right or not. (don't bother, I'm not going to)
You may be right. I am not a lawyer and am not going to go researching today. I'm not doing anything illegal, or even close to illegal, so I don't have any need to.
If you are right, it still only refers to copying that is NOT DISTRIBUTED. I already said I think that's legal in the US. I didn't think it was part of the Fair Use laws, but maybe it is.
What I said still holds true for distributing copyrighted work. I am not going to go researching and quoting. Anyone interested can go learn for themselves. If you find I'm wrong, more power to ya.