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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
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On Aug 22, 2014, themagiciansapprentice wrote: That may be their stated intention. The actual effect of this cooling off period is that you get the DVD for three months, learn everything you need, then sell it on so someone else can learn everything they need, without paying the creator. Most people are probably honest, but you know many are exploiting this.
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
There is a French concept called Droit de Suite, which is part of their intellectual property legislation. If a work is resold, a kickback goes to the creator. I can live with that idea. It is a small percentage, but at least the creator gets paid for the sale of their work.
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TommyJ Inner circle Foxboro, MA 1750 Posts |
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On Aug 23, 2014, TonyB2009 wrote: Hummmmm, now THERES an idea I like
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
Vive la France!
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wwhokie1 Special user 512 Posts |
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On Aug 23, 2014, TonyB2009 wrote: Nice idea, reward the creator. |
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wally Inner circle 1828 Posts |
I have just bought Activity tv magic 1 an2. I think? the company does not exist anymore. who can I approach to ask if I can sell these at birthday parties here in UK. please contact me Keith- magicwalsh@gmail.com thank you.
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Danny Kazam Inner circle 1516 Posts |
It is illegal to copy dvd's for any reason within the USA.
Making copies of DVDs you legally own is illegal under the DCMA and tantamount to piracy, a U.S. federal court ruled. (Source: GameSpy) Making one copy is stealing one copy, says MPAA This week a landmark verdict was handed down to RealNetworks with deep implications for fair use and personal property in America. The ruling wasn't about filesharing, piracy, or malicious computer use. Rather, it was fight over whether users should be able to make copies of digital content that they legal own. And in a precedent-setting decision, the media companies beat a small software vendor and fair use advocates and laid down an imposing decision -- copying DVDs that you own is illegal. The suit filed against RealNetworks centered around the company's RealDVD software, which ripped through protection technology to allow users to make digital copies of their legally-owned content. RealNetworks had plans to release a DVD drive/software bundle called Facet, which would make the process even quicker and easier. The company's business model, though, was put to the legal test. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed suit against the company over alleged violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and breach of contract in a lawsuit filed last fall. The MPAA's assertion was simple -- consumers do not have the right to copy DVD movies -- ever. RealNetwork's defense was that the ARccOS and RipGuard protection technologies it circumvented weren't designed as anti-copying technologies, and further that anti-copying technology was built on CSS, something that RealNetworks held patents on and licensed. It argued that as it owned these rights, it had a right to alter the resulting software This defense fell apart when it was established that ARccOS and RipGuard are not, in fact, included in the CSS license. In the end U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel ruled against RealNetworks, ordering it to stop selling software. Wrote Judge Patel in the decision, "RealDVD makes a permanent copy of copyrighted DVD content and by doing so breaches its (Content Scramble System) License Agreement with the (DVD Copy Control Association, the group that oversees the protection of DVDs for the major Hollywood studios) and circumvents a technological measure that effectively controls access to or copying of the Studios' copyrighted content on DVDs." The MPAA met the verdict with elation. MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman states, "We are very pleased with the court's decision. This is a victory for the creators and producers of motion pictures and television shows and for the rule of law in our digital economy. Judge Patel's ruling affirms what we have known all along: Real took a license to build a DVD-player and instead made an illegal DVD-copier." RealNetworks has complied with the ruling and has suspended sales on its website, though it will likely try to appeal the decision. The case represents a landmark, precedent-setting ruling in terms of fair use. It sets the precedent that not only declares that media-copying software which circumvents copy-protection technologies is illegal, but also adds legal credence to the MPAA and RIAA's argument that consumers making copies of legally purchased DVDs and CDs is a crime. While enforcement of such laws on individual citizens is prohibitively expensive for these organizations, it gives them room to lobby law enforcement to take on the fiscal burden and begin investigating and prosecuting citizens for such offenses. The ruling also raises questions about what exactly amounts to infringement. http://www.dailytech.com/US+Court+Rules+......5969.htm The moment you crack DRM (Digital Rights Managemnt) to rip the DVD, you've violated Title I of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 17 U.S.C. 1201 prohibits circumvention of DRM . . . Some courts have tried to leaven this rather harsh rule, but most have not. While it's typically hard to detect small-scale circumvention, the question is whether bypassing DRM is legal. The statute sets up some minor exceptions, but our ripper doesn't fall into any of them. So, the moment a studio protects the DVD with DRM, it gains both a technical and a legal advantage—ripping is almost certainly unlawful. No DRM, no legal protection. This is US law and other countries may not adhere to these laws, and have their own related laws.
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
Thanks for that update Danny. Interesting. And I think I am very happy with the ruling.
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TommyJ Inner circle Foxboro, MA 1750 Posts |
Interesting. Thanks for sharing Danny.
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Danny Kazam Inner circle 1516 Posts |
Quite the opposite of the laws here in Canada. In Canada it's legal to make copies. http://www.thestar.com/business/2012/11/......ist.html
"Circumventing a digital lock raises different legal issues. The Canadian digital lock rules are amongst the most restrictive in the world, but they do not carry significant penalties for individuals. Under the new law, it is not an infringement to possess tools or software that can be used to circumvent digital locks and liability is limited to actual damages in non-commercial cases. As former Conservative Member of Parliament Lee Richardson noted last year, this suggests that individuals are unlikely to face legal action if they circumvent a digital lock, though larger institutions may establish policies prohibiting the practice."
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Foole4Hire New user 15 Posts |
Whoa, Danny!
Not true. It USED to be legal to back-up magnetic media THAT YOU OWNED under the theory that magnetic media had a planned obselecence. It was also okay to have a home recording or copy a home recording so long as you had clear intentions of recording a telecast but somehow failed to set the timer or whatever. Prices of blank magnetic media reflected a premium that was (supposedly) sent back to content producers. Laws changed 3 years ago -- torrent cachers used to use them as a means of circumventiong copyright. As for the issue here, as long as you do material from a published source, you're honour bound to own the source. I just wish more resellers were scrupulous like some of these posters -- half cover price is the right thing to do. |
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
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On Sep 17, 2014, Danny Kazam wrote: Not quite precise. Under the regular copyright laws, which have stood for decades, it is illegal to copy DVDs just as it is illegal to copy books. Additionally, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to break copy-protection on DVDs. However, when I had 3 teaching DVDs on the market (they are now too outdated and retired from sale, offered free on Youtube HERE and HERE) I simply decided not to make the discs copy-protected (a mere click of the mouse when mastering them) because it's easy for a motivated pirate to break. I sold enough, being paranoid isn't good for me. As for "used" sales, it's not illegal or immoral, any more than selling a used book is. A creator might sell a DVD as part of a performance rights package, and insist that it not be sold, but historically the best way to stop resales is to price such a product very high so that the original purchaser will say "I paid $200 for this routine, I'm not going to resell it for a pittance, I'm not going to give copies to my friends, and I'm not going to dilute the value of having a unique performance piece to attract clients." |
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Steve Petra Regular user New York 195 Posts |
As someone who sells instructional DVDs, I can't see putting a time constraint on when they can be resold. I also am not willing to offer a 30 day money back offer either. That is just inviting someone to copy it and return it. The DVDs contain teaching concepts as well as usable routines and live footage that represent years of performance experience that I am willing to part with for the price of the DVD.
Most of my customers have told me that they would not sell my DVDs because they serve as a sort of textbook that can be referred to over and over again. That is very gratifying and I look at that as a sort of a protection against a flood of cheap resells. There is only so much control you have in a modern worldwide, technically saavy market. |
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