Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:03:26 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000520130326.008a9c50@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000520081306.046e03d0@localhost> References: <392625FE.43D7994B@mail.ptd.net> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513192827.00895a10@mail85.pair.com> <20000514040731.B17455@happy.checkpoint.com> <391E27DD.320D4BBF@mail.ptd.net> <20000514024308.A57423@sasami.jurai.net> <4.3.1.2.20000519144129.04244e60@localhost>
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At 08:17 20-05-2000 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >At 11:43 PM 5/19/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > >> > Ah, but performers routinely prohibit recording or videotaping of >> > plays and concerts, claiming a copyright on those "events." >> >>Are they claiming copyright to the event, or that when you use your >>ticket you incurred a contractual obligation not to record the event? > >Both, actually. You will find notices on the tickets AND copyright >notices in TV and radio broadcasts. TV broadcasts are covered by copyright law. They are not "events". Recordings and videotapes, too, are copyrightable (as are photographs). As for plays, there is also the issue of the play itself (the original written text) being covered by copyright. I acted in many plays at a local college theatre. The director makes a video of each play (one performance only), which he lets us view but not not copy. We cannot copy it because of the playwright's copyright. In fact, our director says regular theatres cannot even tape their own productions: He can only get away with it because it is a college theatre, and there is something in the copyright law (I don't know the details) that allows him to tape it for educational purposes - I'm just quoting what he says, no need to argue with me about its validity (I wouldn't know <g>). Once he produced a play he wrote, and not only did he tape it, he gave all of us a copy, since, as the author, he did not need his own permission. :) Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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