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>Subject: RE: #8859 Legality of non-Region-1 DVDs
>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:18:58 +0800
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A couple comments:
1) region 3 does not include china, it does include Taiwan, Thailand, and
other parts of asia.
2) I don't think there is anything in copyright law regarding the
international transport of legal copies, is there? As an international, that
would be, to say the least, inconvenient :-)
3) It's pretty obvious that the regions were enacted by an industry to
maximize it's ability to profit internationally by discriminatory pricing
and release in various geographic regions. (In the previous sentence, I'm
attempting to use discriminatory in a non-perjorative sense ;-) That's why
China gets its own region separate from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore,
right? Of course, I'm sure industry reps would add that they hoped this
would help limit piracy.
PS Fortunately for me I can buy both DVDs with Chinese and English
soundtracks and subtitles and players for region 3 right here in Taiwan
:-)--of course, only when the industry is kind enough to publish such,
typically only for the largest selling children's mass market titles.
Dr. Steve Spinella, Center for Counseling & Growth
Da Yi Street, Lane 29, #26, 2F-1, Taichung 40454, TAIWAN
011.886.4.2236.1901, fx 4.2236.2109, cell 9.2894.0514
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Subject: #8859 Legality of non-Region-1 DVDs
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>Subject: Legality of non-Region-1 DVDs
I have been spending some time on the Videolib list and the following
article spiked a discussion there:
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/121222
3071
195010.xml&coll=2
The consensus of Videolib (librarians and reps of various DVD rights
holders) was that, no matter what the article says, the DVDs in question
were undoubtedly Chinese bootleg versions of the materials, and therefore
illegal.
The article, however, is claiming that the DVDs owned by the public library
are copies fully licensed for manufacture and distribution in Region 3.
Their illegality would depend on a proposition that the DVD regions are not
a matter of encoding but of geography: one cannot sell (or buy) a DVD
outside its region.
The only thing I can think of would be that the Chinese distributor has a
contract specifically prohibiting sale to the US. But the article implies
that this is an appeal to or test of copyright law itself.
NB the region coding is evidently not being circumvented, since the players
involved supposedly match the region code. In what I have read of cases re.
this law, it should be perfectly legal for an individual to play
non-region-1 DVDs so long as no region-free player is involved (e.g. it can
be legally played on a computer drive or a region-specific player).
Comments?
Judy Shoaf
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