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Originally Posted by MSUeddie
Copyright is a property right to an intangible good. You say "why couldnt you just change forms for your own use." As stated earlier you may NOT make another copy of the work. You bought the right to use the DVD not to use teh underlying movie.
It is a complicated concept. Take a CD that you buy. There are 2 copyrights, 1 is the right to the physical copy made of the music (the CD) which you have rights to use, resell and for other fair use. The underlying musical performance you have no rights to. Thus playing the CD at your bar is infringement, you have to pay a licensing fee to "perform" the musical performance on the CD. For the same reason, you have no rights to the art on the DVD, only rights to the physical DVD.
You are talking about making a Derivative work of another' s copyrighted performance, like it or not that is not permissible.
BTW - I love that you point to the RIAA and MPAA "lobbying" scaring you while in the same post pointing to Oil companies.
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A few points:
-Thanks for the bold and underline about oil companies like I was defending them. I was merely using the "you wouldn't steal gas because it costs too much would you?" argument. Oil companies and their own favorable re-writes of laws is a whole can of worms that it would be pointless to open here.
-Like most, you are focused on the "for profit" use of copyrighted works being illegal. Nobody is disputing this. I am not implying that you should be able to copy a DVD to play it at a movie theatre, nor am I saying that you should make a "backup" copy then sell the original. I am not saying that you should make copies to sell on the internet.
-If I want to rip a CD that I own, and put that song on my iPod, is that illegal? I am taking the song from CD audio and turning it into an mp3 (or some other format); doing pretty much the same things as ripping a DVD into a HD format for your own personal use right?
-You are very well versed on telling us where the law currently is, and most of this is not disputed.. I would say this is an argument of where the law SHOULD be. Think the MPAA would rather you just buy another MP3 copy of a CD you already own to put it on your iPod? You bet they do! But should it really be that way? I say no.