> -----Original Message----- > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucas Gonze > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:59 AM > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: MyHeavy and Magnify and > aggregators in general > > Copyright gives you different powers over taking, displaying, > and profiting. It gives you great power over redistribution. > In the case of displaying via an embed it gives you very > little power (though over aspects of the law might help). In > the case of profiting it gives you no power at all. If you > want to use copyright to control displaying or profiting, > that's an expansion of copyright.
Lucas, I totally and completely respect your position and agree with most of what you say, at least in spirit. Yet I find this one difficult to swallow. I'm not a lawyer, but isn't the nature of copyright, the purpose of copyright, to control the "display" of a work? I suppose we could split hairs over the definition of "display," but isn't it illegal to take a $20 DVD and display it in a theater occupied by 150 people who each paid $12 to see the movie?
