Is DeCSS Legal In UK?

[Ken Brown]

I'm sure you didn't really mean what you wrote here, which, on the face
of it, is bollocks.

In whatever sense governments "bestow" copyright they do it in
accordance with international treaties. And the rights of someone in one
jurisdiction are determined by the laws in that jurisdiction, not in
their home country. If someone, for example, wrote a book in one of the
few remaining territories not subject to copyright treaties, and I
published that book in England claiming it was mine, the real author
would be able to sue me in England surely? Whether or not their own
government had seen fit to "bestow" those rights wherever it was they
came from.

Others have already pointed out the obvious truth that there is no sense
in which a DVD is "copied" in normal play that does not also apply to
CDs

Martin Keegan wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Graham wrote:
> 
> > I've just been looking at my DVD collection.  On none of them it says I am
> > buying a licence to play them in only one part of the world.  Is this
> > implied?  And if so, how does it affect CDs (music or data) I buy when on
> 
> It's implied. Why should a foreign government be able to grant
> rightholders the ability to sue you in the UK courts? They can only bestow
> copyright upon the subjects of their own laws. Therefore you can't be the
> lawful user (for the purposes of s50C) in the UK of a copyrighted work you
> bought elsewhere. This isn't a problem unless you need to copy the work in
> order to use it - which is not a problem for CDs, but is for PS2 games and
> DVDs and computer software.
> 
> > holiday?
> 
> You're not allowed to play them in your computer. Normal CD players and
> others which don't make copies should be fine.
> 
> Mk