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Does U.S. fair use require you to destroy the fair use copies when you're no longer in posession of the original? I don't think so, I think you could even retur
by cryptarch 10y ago
Does U.S. fair use require you to destroy the fair use copies when you're no longer in posession of the original? I don't think so, I think you could even return it to the store, keep the backups and be perfectly legal. Perhaps intent matters?
- AnthonyMouse 10y ago> Does U.S. fair use require you to destroy the fair use copies when you're no longer in posession of the original? I don't think so, I think you could even return it to the store, keep the backups and be perfectly legal. The point is to not argue about such things. Never mind what is and isn't fair use, imagine the strongest possible case for fair use that you can. Something that definitely is. Now in that case suppose the source is a Netflix stream rather than some physical medium. Why is that supposed to change anything? How is DRM OK in one case and not the other? There is no case where it doesn't prohibit you from doing something you have a right to do.
- cryptarch 10y agoI don't support DRM, I'm just wondering if I can buy music I like, rip them, and donate the CD's to my sorority. They need to keep copies of all CD's they play in the building as a protection against our local copyright groups BREIN and BUMA/STEMRA, otherwise they'd have to pay a monthly fee based on the total area music is played in. I think any restriction placed on general purpose computers ends up an assault on the whole thing. I agree with Cory Doctorow's thoughts [0] on this and it being an issue of human v. property rights. [0] https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html