463Chapter 19Playing Music and Video .Users can sell (Web host server)
463Chapter 19Playing Music and Video .Users can sell copyrighted works that they own. You can sell your books, DVDs, audio CDs, and other materials as long as you are not retaining a copyfor yourself, or (of course) selling copies of the work without permission fromthe copyright holder. Some people arguing in favor of file trading with copy- righted materials claim that the DMCA infringes on their ability to share content they own. In fact under existing copyright law they do not own much at all and certainly do not possess the rights to redistribute the contentunless they are reselling them in an allowed manner. .Copyrights will expire at some time in the future and fall into the public domain. Basically, you run into the same issue as with the first item. So your DVD moviefalls into the public domain (eventually), but to freely copy the content youmust again circumvent the protection inherent on the DVD and by doing so, you run afoul of the DMCA. It is important to realize the DMCA is very vague about how it defines many oftheacts that are illegal. What is a protection scheme? Some argue that it could benearly anything. Many pundits fear that the DMCA can be used to curtail the use ofnondigital copyrighted works such as books because the law is so vague in definingits own borders. While the courts are trying to clarify where the legal line is in any particular situation, there s a problem in that often the company suing to protect its copyrights is a largecorporation or group and the defendant is either a new company or even an individ- ual user. Court battles are expensive, and the broad scope of the DMCA essentiallyprevents the little guy from ever making his case because he cannot afford to fight. In 1998 a law known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, or CTEA , waspassed. This act took the already lengthy copyright protection period (generally70years) and extended it by another 20 years, preventing several valuable proper- ties, including film and images of Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse), fromentering the public domain. The question of practicality is very important when examining copyright issues. Inother words what does all of this mean to you as a Linux user? Well, it means thatifyou have to use any trickery to copy MP3s off your CD collection, you could bebreaking the law. Several CD protection schemes used by record companies are designed to preventdigital piracy, but they are very easy to circumvent in most cases. But should youget caught making MP3s off a protected CD, you could be sued and or arrested(hypothetically speaking). It is quite possible that some of the security on CDs isintentionally weak. It saves development costs and allows the copyright holder topursue anyone who has ripped the CD because there is no legal means of doing so. But that is just speculation. Note27_
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