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

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Here we go ... a Salon.com article on Ray Lines and
his "CleanFlicks" business

http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2001/01/11/mormon/

<blockquote>
Lines' attorney asserts that his client is not doing anything wrong. Each
video is purchased and edited individually. The filmmakers are getting paid
for each video, because no copies are made
</blockquote>

Although the movie industry was "looking into" the legality
as of a year ago, http://www.cleanflicks.com/ is still up and
doing business as of this morning.

I believe this situation would be exactly analogous to 
the one proposed whereby japanese vids are subtitled
individually.  Perhaps the legality is still subject
to question, but I think if the industry thought that
it had a good case against Lines it would've pursued 
it by now.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hartman [mailto:hartman@onetouch.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: 'dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu'
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Bauer [mailto:jfbauer@comcast.net]
> ...
> > 
> > Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >It might be a violation of copyright to take something and 
> > sub-title it
> > >and re-release it (I would think it would be!). 
> > 
> > Would it be a violation to sell a sub-titled version if you
> > bought and destroyed an original for every sub-titled copy
> > you distributed?
> > 
> 
> If you have license to a copy, and the right to do what
> you wish with your own copy, then that plan should work.
> 
> It is similar to a plan executed by someone who was fed
> up w/ all the (unnecessary) sex in movies.  He offered
> a service whereby he edited a movie to make a clean version.
> IIRC either the customer had to send in their copy of
> the tape to be edited, or they bought a copy from him
> (as they would from any other reseller) that he had already
> edited.  He did not _make_ copies, he edited existing
> ones.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
> 
> 186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
>