Re: [Phys-l] Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demos (ownership)

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>]

At 17:41  -0500 10/18/06, Jack Uretsky wrote:
> Hi all-
>  	Sorry, Hugh,  but when you buy a licensed product, such as
> software, and agree to the license terms (which, in many cases, you must
> do to open the software) you are bound by the license terms.  Copyright
> ownership is protected by federal criminal statutes, as well as by the
> possibility of suit by the copyright owner.
>  	I have been in a law firm that contacted the fbi to bring criminal
> proceedings against a company that violated the copyright of one of our
> clients.
>  					regards,
>  						Jack
I don't think anything I suggested violates any copyright laws. I 
first suggested bookmarking the DVDs, which still requires that they 
be played in the computer containing the bookmarks, since all the 
bookmark does is record a location on the disc for the pickup to go 
to before playing from the disc.

And transferring the bookmarks to another computer (if that is 
possible, and I don't know that it is) is just transferring that 
navigation information, rather than the clip itself.

I don't think that I am under any obligation to only play a DVd in 
its entirety if I don't choose to, and using a DVD in class is 
clearly within the "fair use" clause of the copyright law. I wasn't 
suggesting copying the clip to any other medium, nor if I read it 
right, was Bob (maybe I didn't read it right). It seemed to me that 
what he had done was to essentially put a bookmark into his PPT file 
and then could put play the DVD clip from the disc through his 
computer. I'm not so certain about my interpretation of what Bob did, 
but I am certain that I was not talking about copying clips from the 
DVD, only recording navigation information that I generated on my 
own. If *that* violates the copyright law then we are all in a lot of 
trouble, since I'll bet we have all been doing that with video tapes 
for eons.

Hugh
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