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>Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:47:30 -0400
>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Subject: Re: #8859.1 (!) Legality of non-Region-1 DVDs
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Thanks for this comment. It clarifies a number of points.
I also found this information re. Baby Einstein, the one "brand" mentioned:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-09/15/content_374704.htm
--which fits your definition of childrens' mass market bestsellers.
Re. your point #2, that is the question. It has always seemed absolutely
true that one had the right to buy, own, and play (without circumventing
region coding) any DVD.
Since Baby Einstein is from Disney, this may be another nefarious plot
of that durn Mouse to make sure nothing with its brand ever gets sold
without an ironclad license. I think the reporter and lawyers in the
Cincinatti case probably misunderstood the situation. Disney is
presumably trying to enforce a clause in a distribution contract.
Judy
>
> 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
> <www.team.org.tw/ccg>, <[log in to unmask]>
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