Re: [Fsuk-manchester] I had no idea

[MJ Ray]

Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Tom Chiverton <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 January 2011 14:54:54 Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> >> For example, playing a DVD you purchased on a digital player[1] or a
> >
> > Using a DVD player is illegal ? Howso ?
> 
> Digital players copy. WIthout an explicit license for this copy, you
> are a criminal.

It's interesting that I didn't find anything to contradict that for a
DVD.  I thought there was something analogous to the "necessary" copy
permission for computer programs (section 50C of the Copyright Designs
And Patents Act 1988 as amended at 1/1/2005) but it seems not - unless
we can regard a DVD as a program.

There did seem to be a similar idea to the first sale right that I
think someone mentioned earlier, embodied in section 56 "Transfers of
copies of works in electronic form".

Puzzled,
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