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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Copy protection bit set on my CD player (digital out).
Message-ID: <270@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 01:06:40 GMT
References: <752@palladium.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <752@palladium.UUCP> rsilvers@palladium.UUCP (rsilvers) writes:

(portion deleted about using a DAT to copy CDs - wjv)
 
>   The Sony-Betamax case won in court.  It allows you to make a single
>copy of any copywrited material for your own use.  I do not think this
>should be ignored in the DAT issue.  I am tired of advancing technology
>being crippled.

You have the results of the Betamax decision wrong.  The decision said it was
legal to video tape programs that were broadcast by TV stations.  That is all
it applied to.  It did not apply to copies of tape, copies from pay for view,
copies from any cable system.  The latter will never be brought to court, as
you can pick up any video section of a major newspaper and see the local cable
systems noting certain movies as beind "ideal for home taping".

You are talking about "fair-use" provisions and possibly "first sale"
provisions of the copyright law.

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