Yes, you may be. The U.S. Copyright Act makes many types of importation an infringement of copyright. As has happened before, the copyright holder can bring a copyright infringement lawsuit against an importer.

It's fully authorized, but for a different country. This means it may not be authorized when imported.

DJ

Not quite. The same reasoning holds true in Canada; there is one set of rules for casual importations, and another for commercial.

The operative word being COMPANY!!!! What you do as an individual is different LEGALLY than what you do as a company.
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?

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.

Thanks for the tip, but I'm actually the lawyer that posted the law to this thread in the first place.

Which is why I said "it may not be authorized when imported." There are some situations where it is, some where it is not. Take a class in reading English if you have trouble.

Thanks for letting me know.

DJ