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Subject: Re: Another Tech Question

Date: Mon 22/12/03 22:13:43 GMT

Name: Kev

Email: kev@styx-photography.com

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afraid the info below is incorrect, copyright covers- copying,hiring,lending,public performance and broadcasting.

The exception to this with regard to copying is for Computer Programmes- where you can make back up copies for your own use.

The law doesn't take into account how many you copy and whether you do it for profit or commercially- that's a red herring.

But as I say, copies for personnal use are not regarded as important enough to prosecute

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Another Tech Question

By Hawk - Mon 22/12/03 15:43:03 GMT

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I hate to be a bother but you guys know a lot more about this sort of stuff than anyone I know. I have a huge inventory of various profesional wetlook tapes I have accumulated over the years (I remember the first tims I saw SSS and WSM tapes in a Movies Unlimited catalog, I was hooked forever). I have a considerable investment in some really excellent material, and time is catching up with these VHS tapes. I am thinking about buying a DVD recorder to save all this stuff onto DVD's, supposedly a more durable medium. As DVD recorders are getting pretty reasonable in price, and blank DVD's are reasonable to buy as well, is this worthwhile? Can I put multiple tapes onto one DVD (they always sell DVD's with two hours of a movie plus a bunch of extra scenes, etc on them, so they must have a huge capacity).

Thanks to the excellent advice I got from this forum (thanks, MK) I have captured some of my tapes to MPEG format, it is really useful in editing captured TV scenes, but for just straight recording of old pro tapes I think I might be better off burnung DVD's.

Also, this might be a touchy subject, but am I violating copyrights by doing this? I bought all my stuff fair and square, either straight from the producers or from legit dealers, and I go way out of my way to support most any producer of wet material, but I don't want to run afoul of any protocols. Of course, anything I do record will be for my use only, no reproduction for any other purposes. I look upon it as preservation of investment.

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