Copyright law [LWN.net]

Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 16:26 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Copyright law by rsidd
Parent article: The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl

The RIAA has no jurisdiction over copyright law. And it doesn't apply here either (hint - the second A stands for America - a *foreign* country).

Until Parliament legally sanctioned copying that sort of stuff for personal purposes, it was illegal. "fair use" is something that doesn't exist in Berne, so that was no use ...

Cheers,
Wol

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Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 17:22 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (3 responses)

True, laws differ across jurisdictions. This is about an American law (DMCA) and American companies/associations (RIAA, Google/Youtube, Microsoft/Github).

Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 17:29 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

That may be true. But the OP I was replying to said copyright law was not about copying ... ??? (And I did quote him, didn't I?)

And I did say *I* couldn't copy a CD ... :-)

The "unread comments" page does rather hide context ... :-(

Cheers,
Wol

Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 21:01 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> The "unread comments" page does rather hide context ... :-(

There is an option (which I use) to include the parent comment of any new comment thread for at least some context.

Copyright law

Posted Nov 19, 2020 0:57 UTC (Thu) by dannyobrien (subscriber, #25583) [Link]

Though note that DMCA 1201-like provisions exist in most countries now: see our blog post "the Github youtube-dl takedown isn't just a problem of American law".