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If you start and aren’t happy with it, at least you learned something along the way. Time and format shifting are allowed acts under copyright law (though possi
by jonhohle 3y ago
If you start and aren’t happy with it, at least you learned something along the way. Time and format shifting are allowed acts under copyright law (though possibly not DMCA), so I’d consider it a great way to backup the things you bought.
- Dalewyn 3y agoObligatory IANAL. Copying something for personal use is perfectly legal, it's the distribution of those copies to the public en masse that most people end up tripping on. If you just want to archive your collection of optical disks onto a NAS for personal use, you can legally do that. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
- jonhohle 3y agoAlso, NAL, but unfortunately, with the exception of Red Book CDs and ROM-Data, archiving commercially published optical media requires circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms. Unfortunately, "space-shifting" was considered and explicitly not added to the list of recommended exceptions to that rule by the Librarian of Congress[0]. It seems like no one appeared to defend this position, and it is not one of the exemptions allowed for circumventing copy-protected works. 0 - https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23311/exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright-protection-systems-for-access-control https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23...