> Brian Butterworth wrote: > >> It permits you, as you keep quoting it, to make a recording of a > >> broadcast to let you view or listen to it at a more > convenient time > >> (timeshifting); it does *not* let you make copies of that > recording > >> (sharing). As I said, and you ignored, above. > > > > It's not in the copy of the Act that I am reading. In fact it uses > > the actual phrase "for the purpose of being placed in an archive". > > The Act actually says "for the purpose of being placed in an > archive *maintained by a designated body*". And a designated > body is defined by Statutory Instrument as: > The British Film Institute > The British Library > The Music Performance Research Centre > The Scottish Film Council > National Library of Wales > British Medical Association > British Music Information Centre > Imperial War Museum > (according to the latest SI I can find, dated 1993).
Yes, I know that. The point being was of that the law is clear enough to distingush between the idea of taking a copy for private use to watch at a more convienient time and the idea of the intent of keeping it forever. > > > Whilst we are at it, the way that the MPEG-2 system works REQUIRES > > that the data is held in a memory buffer, because of the > way that the > > temporal compression works, so it's very easy to argue that digital > > transmission is a store-and-forward system and would be impossible > > (and illegal by your logic) to use without many copies being made. > > Transient copies such as you refer to are covered by The > Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003, which added > this to the 1988 Act: > "Copyright in a literary work, other than a computer program > or a database, or in a dramatic, musical or artistic work, > the typographical arrangement of a published edition, a sound > recording or a film, is not infringed by the making of a > temporary copy which is transient or incidental, which is an > integral and essential part of a technological process and > the sole purpose of which is to enable - > (a) a transmission of the work in a network between third > parties by an intermediary; or > (b) a lawful use of the work; > and which has no independent economic significance."." > > Quite clear, really. :) "not infringed by the making of a temporary copy which is transient or incidental" sounds like a BitTorrent to me. > -- > ATB, > Matthew | http://www.dracos.co.uk/ > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release > Date: 30/01/2007 23:30 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 30/01/2007 23:30 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
