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bambismither
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legal issues with video copying
      #390345 - Thu Apr 03 2008 10:30 PM

I purchased material that I want to use for training others. The fee to buy included a license to use for training.

However it was much cheaper to buy videos rather than DVD's - about a third of price. What I would like to do now is use some software (only one I know is Dazzle - is there anything better and cheaper??) to transfer these videos onto DVD (and edit them down to the main points) so I can use them on my laptop and not lunck about a video player

On my license it states that they may not be copied. But as I am not truly copying them for distributing purposes - simply moving them to an easier format - is that legal?

Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated


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Re: legal issues with video copying [Re: bambismither]
      #390465 - Sat Apr 05 2008 11:23 AM

You want the obvious answer?
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On my license it states that they may not be copied.


There are no qualifications to that statement - you chose the cheap option and that's one of the penalties. A copy is a copy no matter that it is copied from one format to another.

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Re: legal issues with video copying [Re: greysts]
      #391471 - Mon Apr 14 2008 07:11 PM

There again..
If you tell no one. Whos to know????

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greystsModerator
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Re: legal issues with video copying [Re: bobnemesis]
      #391505 - Mon Apr 14 2008 09:42 PM

I am for a start. If you are proposing that the OP should indulge in copyright theft, please don't do it on this forum.

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Re: legal issues with video copying [Re: greysts]
      #391642 - Wed Apr 16 2008 12:11 AM

Where was I proposing the OP indulge in copyright theft in my answer?
So Sad.

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