Demon & DeCSS

[Owen Blacker]

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ISTR that the specific [Statutory] defence is one of "Fair use". 
This is restricted (there is no fair use defence on a Xerox copy of
sheet music or Ordinance Survey maps, for example), but applies to
audio music (so you can copy a CD to MiniDisc for your walkman),
broadcast television (to video a programme when you're gonna be out),
software (backup copies), journal articles Xeroxed by academics and
all kinds of other stuff.

I make it clear that IANAL and, as such, I am more than willing to be
corrected...   :o)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Dunbar [mailto:nd@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 5:29 PM
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Demon & DeCSS
> 
> 
> Donald Ramsbottom wrote:
>  
> > If someone has DeCSS on their site( in England &
> > Wales), that is fine, if someone downloads it it is fine. 
> If they use it to
> > decrypt that is fine. What is not OK is then copying the 
> decrypted material.
> 
> Do you mean copying and distributing further, or just
> copying (ie for personal use, or backup purposes)? I've
> never been clear if UK laws allow personal use copies
> without violating copyright law, or whether it's one of
> these "yes, it's technically illegal, but we'll never prosecute"
> affairs.
> 
> If copying itself was a violation, then a (software, or
> streaming) DVD player itself which temporarily cached
> decrypted data onto its hard disk would be
> in breach of copyright - which seems preposterous.
> 
> (Wasn't there some UK case which established that
> videotaping TV programmes for later viewing was legit?
> The 2600 case referred to this as "time-shifted" copying)
> 
> Neil
> 
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