Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Compelling blog post title, no?
So typical of the bloated steroid brains running that business. Yes, guys, you’ll always be able to do just whatever you want to fans, because your product is in unceasingly great demand. Just ask the record companies.
Billed hat tip to TechMeme.
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION blog author Ron Coleman is a member of Dhillon Law Group in their New York City and Montclair, New Jersey offices. He is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and Princeton University.
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So is it fair use to “media shift” a now unplayable format? I think doing so falls under Sec. 107 of the Copyright Act, but I would suspect some type of DMCA claim if people started converting video en mass (especially if MLB is represented by the same lawyers as Prince!). 🙂
At least with a VHS tape (or even DVD) you can convert it to a “modern” playable format for personal use.
This is another example of the short-sightedness of using DRM to manage copyrighted works. Though, with their market leverage, you are right, Ron… why should MLB (or RIAA) care at all?
[…] Not surprising. MLB is one of the worst abusers of the IP laws, by the way. More here. And here. Incidentally, it’s unquestionably also one of the biggest victims of infringement. But our mothers all taught us that two wrongs don’t make a right, right? […]