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Originally Posted by jaffab
1) You go to a party and take a CD, and 20 people dance to the music. Yet none of them have purchased the CD
2) You read a (p)book, and its good, so you lend it to your wife, she reads it, and likes it, so lends it to a friend.
3) You buy a DVD and a friend comes over for the evening, and you watch the DVD together – but only you have paid for the DVD.
The point being is that all of these are normal activities in which copyright is broken, and people enjoy an item without the needs to purchase their own copy. So where, legally, is the line drawn.
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A copy is NOT made in any of these examples, so there is no copyright violation. Although the MPAA might want to claim you put on a "public" viewing of the movie in instance 3, but I doubt it.
Now, if you change the above to:
1. I rip my CD and burn a new copy of it, take it to a party and leave it here.
2. I xerox a pbook making 10 coppied and pass a copy to each of my closest friends.
3. My friend points a video camera at the screen while the movie is playing and takes the video recording home.
Now, in the above three cases a "copy" was made hence violating copyright.
BOb