🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:50:06 GMT, "Mr. Know" <remove_abuse@mts.net>
wrote:

>gutz <winnipeg_don@yahoo.com> wrote in
>news:cosvougb552e1p1heness14vsklncp3b2d@4ax.com: 
>
>> Let's face it though. Anyone who has recorded a CFL, NFL football
>> game has broken this law. There is always a disclaimer as to not
>> viewing/showing it without express written consent.......
>> 
>> 
>> cheers
>> gutz
>
>Isn't this scenario covered under the allowance that has been made for 
>time shifting which allows someone to view an event they might 
>otherwise miss?

Not sure. My take on it is that the networks pay the production co's
for the right to broadcast movies, sports events........etc. I believe
taping these copy written programs is legal.

>This was hotly debated at the time VCR's were being introduced wasn't 
>it?

Sure. Every time any new method of copying comes along, it's debated
to death. The end result is usually the consumer wins.

>And the disclaimers usually say that unauthorized * public * viewing ( 
>which I always took for a mass public audience that may be paying a fee 
>or in an establishment thats possibly making money selling tickets, 
>cover charge, alchohol, etc,) is prohibited, don't recall it saying 
>personal viewing is not allowed.

I'll try and watch a baseball game today.....or a football game.....
(for some reason they seem to think they are exempt from copying. I'll
listen for the announcers speel about "any unauthorized
copying......etc"

I'll get the wording right.