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In your book example... I don’t think you can (legally) redistribute your book. It’s just publishers don’t really care if you do, because cost of enforcement is
by onethought 6y ago
In your book example... I don’t think you can (legally) redistribute your book. It’s just publishers don’t really care if you do, because cost of enforcement is too high. That’s why they like kindles.
Software used to be like this too, back when it was distributed as a physical thing (disks).
DRM was about protecting copyright, your book/kindle example was a perfect illustrator of that. But I agree, it has been weaponised and misused.
- namibj 6y agoYou can't distribute copies of the book (outside of limited exceptions). First Sale doctrine says you can pretty much do whatever you want with the physical item.
- onethought 6y agoHuh, I wasn’t familiar with that (again another US nuance to Copyright). This isn’t globally accepted.
- fabianhjr 6y agoIt is globally accepted. There are many community libraries throughout the world that consist on a small shelf on a sidewalk where people leave books for others and take the ones they are interested in. https://littlefreelibrary.org/ https://littlefreelibrary.org/
- dmurray 6y agoAnd plenty of used bookstores, who do the same thing commercially and generally don't even get nasty letters from publishers.
- onethought 6y agoNo it isn’t. As law. It might be accepted as practice. They are different.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoExamples of where it is not?
- paragraft 6y agoCan't speak to other countries but I know in NZ you're not allowed legally to rip DVDs or blurays you own (even just for private use, no distribution intended). The copyright act is structured with a whitelist of permissible format shifts, and while CDs made it onto that list, movie discs didn't.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThis is true in America as well, though nobody cares. DVD's and bluray are protected with DRM, and you can only legally circumvent that DRM to use a short chunk as a critic or to develop accessibility features. I am unaware of anyone prosecuted for ripping though, only several for developing/spreading the DRM circumvention. Though, the other poster is right, that's a separate thing to what is being discussed.
- esrauch 6y agoSurely you can still resell and loan the physical CD/DVD though, which is what's being discussed here as universally legal? I think ripping DVDs would be seen as equivalent to photocopying a book.
- markdown 6y agoI can't seem to respond to the sibling comment directly, so I'll comment here to say that ripping a CD or DVD is making a copy of it, which isn't what this thread is about. You can't rip it, but you can sell, share, or do whatever you want with the original copy you bought and own. That is true everywhere in the world.
- onethought 6y agoEU has a same-but-different "Exhaustion of Rights" concept. But WTO organisation does not have any provisions for this principle. Asia-pac countries do not have this provision at all, unless enforced by US-trade agreements.