From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 10:32:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: More on copyright, (Re: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN) Date: 10 May 2002 10:32:21 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205100932.279fb402@posting.google.com> References: <3CDAA2DA.4526E848@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021051941 25721 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2002 17:32:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2002 17:32:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23859 Date: 2002-05-10T17:32:21+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote in message news:<3CDAA2DA.4526E848@san.rr.com>... > "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" wrote: > > Just wonder, what will happen if I create my own > > comments on that film on > > _separate_ cassete, then bundle it with legally > > obtained (bought) original > > thing, and begin to sell such packages? If this may be > > considered as copyright > > violation, then - at which step it occurs? That sounds fine. As long as the two are separate, and your tape is otherwise on secure grounds, no problem > FWIW, I've seen a similar thing done in the US many time. > You buy the > software (or whatever), mail it to the patch author, the > patch author > applies the patch and mails it back to you. So that would > probably be OK > in some sense. Probably not. I have never heard of this being done, and it would almost certainly be a copyright violation. As an example, consider the company that was marketing copies of Titanic with the "good parts" bleeped out of the tape. They bought new tapes and modified them, but the film company went after them on the grounds that they were creating an unauthorized derived version. The case settled, and the product was off the market, so we don't have a judicial judgment here, but it was pretty clear that the company would have won.