On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now we get into copyright issues. Lending out your physical copy of a > book or DVD is perfectly legal. I'm not so sure about a ripped copy > sitting on someone else's server. It would depend on the license. But > renting it out might not be legal even if lending or copying was. > (Creative Commons Non-commercial license, e.g.) I am not a lawyer, and > don't want to get into those issues. Nor would I care to become an > RIAA/MPAA lawyer target. > > I expect our OP has looked into this issue. >
IANAL, but I imagine, so long as he holds the physical copies in escrow, he will have a similar sort of status as netflix. He will similarly have to negotiate the same sorts of distribution rights as netflix does, and will *have* to use DRM to get those rights. The content owners won't go for anything less--and even with that, are very hard to negotiate with. Some require large ($millions) down payments up front. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
