[pp.int.general] Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party GetsCharged With Felony Movie Piracy

[Reinier Bakels]

  It is probably just "fair use" under US copyright law. But that is open to interpretation - and the rights owners devise cerative interpretations in their interest. It helps to make people nervous.
  Should we be glad to have "closed" exception systems in Europe? They do provide more legal certainty. But they lack flexibility.
  Remarkably, the TRIPS agreement (to be obeyed by all 160+ World Trade Organisation member states) allows copyright exceptions if the requirements of a "three step test"are met: "Members shall confine limitations or exceptions to exclusive rights to certain special cases which do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the right holder." (art. 13) The bad news is that this is utterly vague, and legislators implementing national laws compliant with TRIPS naturally prefer to stay on the safe side. 
  reinier
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nicolas Sahlqvist 
  To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk 
  Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 1:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party GetsCharged With Felony Movie Piracy


  It is ridiculous, they are trying to use a anti-piracy law to the letter again, 4 minutes could probably be argued under fair use and it is obvious from the clips that she did not intend to record the movie according to the article.




  - Nicolas
    PPI / PPSE member



  On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Marco Confalonieri <marco.confalonieri at email.it> wrote:

    juca at members.fsf.org ha scritto: 
      Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy on Friday December 04, @04:55PM 
      Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday December 04, @04:55PM 
      from the ignorance-knows-no-bounds dept. 
      moviesThey are trying at the maximum of their possibilities to show the world how much stupid is the anti-piracy crusade.


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    Marco Confalonieri
    ass.prom.soc. Partito Pirata (PP Italy)
    http://www.partito-pirata.it 

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