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Do you have a source? This is what I'm going off of. "How do I know what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music/movies? Here's the bottom line:
by cmdrfred 10y ago
Do you have a source? This is what I'm going off of.
"How do I know what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music/movies?
Here's the bottom line: If you distribute copyrighted music/movies without authorization from the copyright owner, you are breaking the law. (Distribution can mean anything from "sharing" files on the Internet to burning copies of copyrighted material onto blank CDs, DVDs, or Flash drives, and selling or giving them to others.)"
http://dmca.ucr.edu/faqs.html http://dmca.ucr.edu/faqs.html
- pjc50 10y agoExact phrasing depends on jurisdiction, but see: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/title17.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/title17/title17.pdf especially §106 Exclusive rights in copyrighted works p16 "Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords" Reproduction is infringement. Distribution of copies is also infringement but carries separate penalties. There's all sorts of carveouts and caveats, but remember Sony v Betamax: it took a court case to invent the time-shift exemption that making a copy of a broadcast TV program wasn't infringement.