Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights

["Ernest Miller" <ernest.miller(at)aya.yale.edu>]

Under current law, selling the MD (with copied music) would be illegal.
Whether you had actually done something wrong is another story.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noah silva" <nsilva@atari-source.com>
To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights


> If you sell just your copy?
>
> ok so tonight I go buy a CD.
> Tomorrow I copy it to a minidisc.
> Saturday I go jogging with my MD player and that MD.
> My house burns in a fire while I am gone (and the CD is destroyed).
> I get home and go "oh shit!" and I have not enough insurance.
> I sell my MD player and the MD.
>
> Did I do something illegal?
> To me:
> a.) It was legal to space shift it.
> b.) I have ownership of one copy of the music.
>
> If I sold the CD I am still "distributing" it, and surely that is legal.
> what's the difference to sell the MD?  I have one license to it, and I
> sold it.  I own that license, if they stop me from selling it, isn't that
> like them stealing it from me?
>
>  -- noah silva
>