[PLUG] RE: "Video Games" episode of The History Channel's "Modern Marvels" show

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sat Apr 20 06:56:21 UTC 2002


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Long [mailto:greg at maneuveringspeed.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:43 PM
>To: PLUG; pdx-freebsd at toybox.placo.com
>Subject: "Video Games" episode of The History Channel's "Modern Marvels"
>show
>
>
>I vidcapped the 43min (1 hour) History Channel episode of Modern Marvels
>on Video Games - remixing now into a 460mb DivX and probably a 130mb
>MPEG1 - if anyone is interested - sans commercials. I'm not going to
>post for my web server to dish out because of my limited bandwidth, but
>on a one to one basis I could send either version out - I prefer to send
>the DivX - you can always make a lower quality MPEG1 from there. Anyone
>interested can email me at addmin at maneuveringspeed.com - ommit the
>second "d" from "addmin"
>
>Near as I understand, because these are broadcast, it's legal to
>distribute (without charge of course) - although it surely upsets the
>advertisers. :)
>

No they are not.  Broadcast shows are legal for viewing but do not
carry re-broadcast/re-distribute rights.  To redistribute something
you taped off the air you must get permission from the broadcaster.
This goes for radio as well.  It has nothing to do with the commercials,
other than commercials also don't give rebroadcast rights either.

Ted




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