I was doing some research recently into First Sale, and looked at the original US Supreme Court case, Bobbs-Merill vs. whatever Macy's was then. The publisher had put a label on their books saying they could not be sold for less than $1, but Macy's was violating that warning label. The court obviously ruled that once Bobbs-Merill had sold the books to a retailer they could label them all they wanted but they did not control resale terms.
I think of that when I see those Warning Screens on DVDs..... Judy Shoaf ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Chris Lewis [[email protected]] Tangent alert: John Sayles also wrongly asserts that "screening a regular consumer DVD in a classroom is a violation of copyright law, as stated by the Warning Screen that appears before the movie. " Quoted from his "response" at the bottom of his own blog post about the release of his film "Amigo": http://johnsaylesblog.com/amigo-dvd-release/ This despite the fact that none of his other films are available with anything but home-use rights. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
