Re: List Management: Re: [d@DCC] Future CBC "the docket" on digital copyright.

From: "Krishna E. Bera" <keb _-at-_ cyblings.on.ca>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:58:28 -0500
References: <20030218235236.GB483@melon.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302221037000.9609-100000@calcutta1.flora.ca>

When did recording tv shows for home/citizen/non-commercial use 
become copyright infringement?  We have legally had blank VCR tapes 
for recording tv long before digital issues complicated the mix.
No one is talking about re-posting programs to the web -- 
it is an arrangement between two colleagues.


On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:43:45 -0500 (EST)
Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> wrote:

> 
> (putting list manager hat on)
> 
> People,
> 
>   Can all of this be kept off the list in the future, as this is not 
> something that should be posted to any public forum (and especially not 
> this one).
> 
>   It is one thing to discuss how we may disagree with what the Canadian
> Copyright Act considers infringement, and whether
> non-commercial/non-profit infringement is a de minimus crime (and whether
> it is helpful to the copyright holder as a form of free advertising), but
> it is another thing to actively organize infringement on this forum.
> 
>   Deliberate and publicized infringement as a form of civil disobedience is
> one thing, but does this really quality?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Kristofer Coward wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:05:17PM -0500, Fergal Warde wrote:
> > > I'll cap it.. 720x480 in mpeg2 OK? :)
> > 
> > sounds good.
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
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>  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
>  Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, 
>  VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen 
>  and not a third party.   -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
> 
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