Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:

> > With the television, either you or someone else is paying for the
> > program to be broadcast. I don't think anyone has a problem with
> > people taping the program to watch it at another time. The bigger
> > concern is when you start distributing it.
>
> Ahhhh... I see. Well, I don't distribute downloads to anyone and I
> rarely, if ever, have downloaded something that was not on my cable
> network that I missed. Methinks I'm okay then. I thought so but wasn't
> sure. This brings up an interesting thought. Say I go to a movie
> theatre, really enjoy the movie and then download it to DVD. Since I
> paid to see the movie would this be considered illegal? I may have done
> this a couple of times in the past 10 years or so.


I just checked the Canadian Intellectual Property Office site and I could
be wrong about the movie. They say that it is okay to give a private
performance of a work or to play it in your own home is not a violation.
Taping a song for personal use is not a problem (there is a tax on audio
tapes in Canada and the money is *supposed* to go to the artists).
However, it says that making a recording of a cassette movie is an
infringement. I don't know exactly how that applies to movies that have
come in by antenna or satellite receiver.

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/cp/copy_gd_protect-e .html


I am not in the habit of downloading music. I have downloaded a song that I
was interested in hearing, but have never saved any or put them into my MP3
player. The only music I have in there is stuff that I have ripped from my
own CD collection and it is for use when I go to the gym. I confess to
having bought a boot leg videotape movie of an incredible Belgian movie
that I have never seen on television, in the theatre or in video stores.
It doesn't seem much like a loss to the owners of the movie because I could
not have bought it legally here legally.


> I have heard the horror stories, especially in the recording business. I
> watched a special on one of the cable networks about a singer that was on
> his way to the really big time in his song genre. Anyway, what it boiled
> down to was the production company was basically paying him a pittence
> and his agent was taking a chunk. The glitzy star had absolutely no
> money when he died and he did not live an extravagant lifestyle that so
> many of the do. Damned if I can remember the name though.


That reminds me...... I saw my sister in law in a movie last night. I think
it is one that she gets residuals on. It has been renamed. She is coming
for lunch tomorrow so I will have to tell her about it.