Re: [photo-3d] Worth the read -- Can you stand one more item on Copyright?

[Mike Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Jacob wrote:

> hypocritical. For example they profess that they want a world economy,
> but yet introduce regional DVD's! In anycase, it's not the copyright

Those are different "they's".  Regional DVDs are that way because 
movies aren't release to the world simultaneously.  Nor do they need
to do so to have a "world economy", that's not what the term means.

The DVD-folk wanted to be able to release a movie to the region that
they want to release to (and presumably are spending their time 
and money promoting it in) without it being distributed by the lower
tiers of distribution into other areas.  The region codes were their 
solution, whether good or bad, it was at least reasonable.


> clever money making scheme. This is not future implementation, but
> is happening today. I forget where I read this, so I can't quote
> the article, but it was in a respected trade magazine. They tried
> this with DVD (limited viewing sessions), but was short lived.

That was the DIVX scheme.  This "they" were ONE national chain of 
stores in the U.S. (circuit city) plus another firm who's business 
I've forgotten, but it was something unrelated.

It wasn't something by some international massive cartel scheming away,
it was just one of the store chains down the street from you
trying to do the cross between blockbusters rental and DVD sales
in a single product.  Something very similar to pay-per-view which
has been around for quite a while (the divx disks were *cheap* compared
to regular DVD disks).  I'm glad it's dead, but the only way
it would have been otherwise would been if lots of people liked
it.

> 
> Further to the discussion of "fair use", you think Dr.T pushed
> the envelope with remounting some of Boris's fine images, what about
> lending your friends your music CD or videotape? Alot of the ones
> I have, restrict you from even lending them out!!! I've seen books
> with these kind of restrictions also. I wonder if anyone on this
> list would blindly follow these crazy restrictions.

What's his name the supermega country star guy wanted a royaltee
when used copies of his CD's were sold (think he was mostly laughed
at).


> Now making a feeble attempt to make this 3-D related, imagine paying
> a fee for per 3-D image created using an anaglyph or interlacing
> program! 

If Kinko's had such a service at their place, they'd probably 
charge you that very way.  If that's bad, how would you suggest they
get paid for providing the computer, software, space, time, etc?


Mike K.

P.S. - My wild-story posting wasn't addressing anything Dr. T. did,
       it only was addressing his defense (which wasn't needed) that
       what he did wasn't for profit.  Point of my story was that
       non-profit-ness isn't a defense in copyright issues, else
       non-profit organizations like my stereo club would have a
       carte blanche.  :-)