OFFICIAL: Importing DVDs is illegal
02-09-05, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Nebiroth
It's nothing to to with copyright really...because when you import something, you aren't breaching copyright.
WHat you buy is a fully authorised copy..unless of course it's a priate version.
DJ
02-10-05, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Kris81
Marry a Canadian.. it's legal here EH!
02-12-05, 08:53 PM
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I forget which company it was, but they were importing Shaolin Soccer dvd's and whichever company it was that released it in the theaters told them to stop doing it.
Per copyright law, it is LEGAL to import ONE copy of a foreign work for YOUR PERSONAL USE.
However-- if you import 10 copies and distribute them (even to your friends, for FREE) techinically, that's illegal. (Tho' in general if you don't make money no one cares)
If you import and then sell copies-- that's illegal.
Technically, if you charge "admission" to a group of people to watch the DVD you imported (which sounds like the case for the specific issue you brought up) Guess what? It's illegal.
What bothers me, is it seems like Corporate America, including the MMPA and other special interest groups with a heck of a lot more money than me, are trying to make it illegal to even import ONE, single copy of ANY book, movie, TV show, or even work of art from other countries. It's part of the isolation movement, and it sucks royally.
Right now it's legal-- tomorrow, who knows?
02-12-05, 08:57 PM
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It's fully authorized, but for a different country. This means it may not be authorized when imported.
And even if it was illegal, which it's not, it would be an InCREDIBLY shortsighted, stupid, racist, imperial law.
02-12-05, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BritTVfanMidwst
READ the law, (take a class in law if you have trouble)
-- IMPORTING for your own personal use, is NOT, illegal-- not yet.
And even if it was illegal, which it's not, it would be an InCREDIBLY shortsighted, stupid, racist, imperial law.
DJ
