Re: dvd recorder/player

There is an international copyright accord known as the Berne Convention
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html)

"Patrick Navin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Jer wrote:
>
> >
> > Then explain how it is that having a copy of a copyrighted work without
> > permission from the copyright holder is not a breach of international
> > copyright law.
> >
>
> The concept of 'International Law' is something you might want to read
> up on. There is no codified international legislation, merely a vast
> collections of treaties, agreements and some international
> organisations' articles of incorporation.
>
> The application of law from one state to another is one of the most
> complex and frustrating areas of law. Agreements in certain territories
> have no value in others becasue prevailing law may prohibit or restrict
> the way in which certain agreements or contracts are enforced or allowed.
>
> Copyright, with it's own additional complexities, when een in an
> international context, is supremely shady and difficult to apply.
> Suffice to say that, what one distributor's copyrigth agreement permits
> in one state, anothers' forbids in yet another.
>
> One clear fact is that copyright infringement cannot be dealt, under UK
> law, as Theft under TFA 1986. The problem with copyright is that it
> applies, invariably, to intellectual property for which it is difficult
> to approve both actual appropriation and intention to deprive on a
> permanent basis.
>
> There is no 'international copyright law' per se. The codification and
> enforcement of copyright agreements caires wildly from state to state
> and incoporates both legal and political implications (Chinese state's
> reluctance to prosecute pirates of Microsoft/Sony etc). You must look at
> your local copyright legislation, and the terms and conditions of the
> individiual copyright agreement, to determine whether the copying of an
> item is a substantive breach of both the agreement and the law. Bear in
> mind that states almost invariably do not recognise other states as
> international legal personalities by right of existence. Rather they
> tend to recognise them only inasmuch as a particular treaty or agreement
> identifies them. Unless a treaty or agreement between your own nation
> and the nation from which the copyright agreement derives covers the
> said intellectual copyright, enforcement or pursuance are unlikely.
>
> For a very good primer in 'International Law' and the concept of legal
> personality of states I recommend Michael Akehurst's 'An Introduction to
> International Law'.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Patrick
>
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