Thread: Skipping commercials is copyright infringement?
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Old 05-29-2012, 06:34 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books View Post
no its not about the individual user- its about what the carrier is required by copyright to deliver to you
On the one hand, yes. On the other... if it's only legal to copy or display in the format it's given to you, is it copyright infringement to fast-forward past the commercials when you're watching a recorded show with your family?

Copyright infringement doesn't have a built-in exception for "home use noncommercial purposes."

I'm really not sure I buy "you're given the WHOLE PACKAGE INCLUDING COMMERCIALS and must not allow modifications to that." Especially since the owner of the *commercial's* copyright is different from the owner of the show's copyright.

Whose copyright is presumably being violated here?
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