![]() ![]() ![]() Someone using a US term to refer to UK law might be a reasonable guideline that they are perhaps not as well versed in the UK copyright law as they might have imagined themselves to be. I offered no comment on what people may do on the Toppy website or elsewhere - I simply stated that much of what people write online regarding copyright is actually not accurate when people talk about something being "fair use" it is not a concept that has any meaning in UK law.Īll too often, I have seen people offering up advice that they've found online, and haven't actually realised is based on US law, which is different. I'm not entirely sure what your point is I'm merely stating that the information I posted there is from the UK government web site, and as such accurately reflects the UK law on copyright. Or the ones we were transferring - in all their 250 line, 330 x 576 glory - to DVD. Are you seriously suggesting that it is all 'timeshifting' and thus safely above the fundamentals of copyright legislation? When did anyone get prosecuted for watching a Dad's Army tape twice?įortunately "the law" is usually interpreted in this case with due account being taken of the likely commercial impact of the activity to the broadcasting organisation and thus most of the houses in the UK are probably not going to have the doors banjo'd in and large men leaving with armfuls of our 1980s VHS tapes of 'Dad's Army'. Or you could write to yourself on the Topfield site, which last time I looked is hosting TAPs and links for transferring MPEG from Topfield to authored DVD. None of us are lawyers, I think, but the corollary of the above is to report all our threads on transferring Freeview recordings from PVR to DVD to the Digital Spy management, and recommend their deletion. ![]() Taking such a reductionist approach to copyright is a bit like going out on thin ice wearing self-heated boots. ![]() Ignore people who blather on on the internet about "fair use." The term has no meaning at all in UK copyright law at present, which specifies instead that certain exceptions (like the time shifting one) will be considered "fair dealing." Those are the only exceptions. ![]()
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