This weekend, at long last, I finally finished digitizing the last of my VHS wam archives.
To celebrate, I thought I'd post screen grabs from some of my all-time favorite Rob Blaine scenes, and some other rarities. First, the Messyfun stuff (in this post).
And guess what? Now you, too, can own these fine wam classics! Check out my post in the Classifieds forum for a list of rare VHS tapes I'm looking to unload. (See how cleverly I steered you over to that ghost town with a picture post in this forum?)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but selling tapes that you've copied is probably against the copyright laws, unless the stuff is so old ( and no one kept up on them) that the copyright ran out.
Don't worry, Norman, you're not the bearer of bad news. These are the original tapes - not copies. First sale doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 109) permits resale of used physical media. (It's also legal to make protection copies of your own media as long as those are not sold or given to another party.)
No one actually wanting to buy old VHS tapes -- now that's the bad news I was expecting, and if it's the case, so be it.
RegisPurchase1 said: Don't worry, Norman, you're not the bearer of bad news. These are the original tapes - not copies. First sale doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 109) permits resale of used physical media. (It's also legal to make protection copies of your own media as long as those are not sold or given to another party.)
But you said so yourself though that's exactly what you're doing. You've digitized old VHSes you've bought and are now looking to sell said VHSes which would be illegal unless you delete your digital copies.
MrFred said: But you said so yourself though that's exactly what you're doing. You've digitized old VHSes you've bought and are now looking to sell said VHSes which would be illegal unless you delete your digital copies.
I don't believe that's accurate -- I don't think destroying backup copies is a condition of a legal resale of the original. Can anyone point out legislation or case law that addresses the point? Here's an article (and comments) by a scholar who considers the specific issue and concludes that there is no statutory infringement:
MrFred said: But you said so yourself though that's exactly what you're doing. You've digitized old VHSes you've bought and are now looking to sell said VHSes which would be illegal unless you delete your digital copies.
I don't believe that's accurate -- I don't think destroying backup copies is a condition of a legal resale of the original. Can anyone point out legislation or case law that addresses the point? Here's an article (and comments) by a scholar who considers the specific issue and concludes that there is no statutory infringement:
Legal loopholes aside, the end result of your proposal is that two people are ending up with access to the content when the producer was only paid for one. That's just common sense that you're ripping off the producer, regardless of loopholes or their current status as a producer.
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