On 11/08/2010 08:58 PM, Marc Siskin wrote:
Richmond,
One "legal" factor you want to keep in mind is the number of concurrent
playbacks per dvd. The backup argument is only good as long as you have a DVD for each
concurrent viewing of the movie. E.g. 3 concurrent viewings = 3 DVDs.
And all of this is in the realm of non-tested law. I would get your school's
attorney's approval (they should be willing to defend you if you are asked to
cease and desist).
My "school's attorney"; ha, ha, ha; as 95% of lawyers in Bulgaria use
pirated copies of Windows
and Microsoft Office on their PCs the last thing I am likely to do is
consult any of them . . . :)
As I, and I alone, will be showing these DVDs, and I and I alone own
physical copies of the DVDs
I would, in any other, "less bent" country, not pay a lawyer to get
his/her sweaty, vampirical
paws into my money.
As my 'school' is in fact, registered as a "language centre"; i.e.
because it does NOT have separate toilets for boys and girls it cannot
be regsitered as a school; which, paradoxically, means that I operate under
far less restrictions than a language school qua language school, my
"showing" DVDs is legally viewed
as the same sort of thing as running a DVD for one of my kids and
his/her chums in my sitting-room.
I am not really worried about large-scale legal ramifications; just
about the legality of having a copy
on a hard disk (read Ubuntu + k9copy).
Marc Siskin
On Nov 8, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Richmond wrote:
My EFL school is slowly migrating from a mixed Mac and Ubuntu school to being
a 100% Ubuntu school. However, for some reason which escapes me DVD playback
on my Ubuntu boxes is, at best, "lumpy".
Therefore I am proposing to make ISO images of all the DVDs that I own and use
on
a regular basis onto the hard disk of my main content delivery machine; I will
always
have the physical DVDs present in the classroom.
This will allow my Ubuntu box to play my DVDs normally.
Can anyone advise me as to the legality of this action?
Morally I have no qualms whatever; without this process I would have to,
either, purchase a TV and a DVD player, or, a Mac.
sincerely, Richmond.
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Carnegie Mellon University
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