Rewritable DVDs

Marty_J

superscaper wrote: »

I know about that and certainly in some of the consumer rights laws there're very subjective terms similar to fair use, but as you mentioned since we're just talking about the copyright act, it doesn't apply. It wasn't a generic statement and was just specifically referring to copyright.

Chapter III of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 sets out the provisions for fair use in UK law. As in US law, it relates to matters such as educational use, freedom of the press, reviews, derivative artistic works, publishing extracts, etc.

However, recording "a broadcast or cable programme solely for the purpose of enabling it to be viewed or listened to at a more convenient time does not infringe any copyright in the broadcast or cable programme or in any work included in it."

Photographing TV shows is OK too.

superscaper

Marty_J wrote: »

Chapter III of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 sets out the provisions for fair use in UK law. As in US law, it relates to matters such as educational use, freedom of the press, reviews, derivative artistic works, publishing extracts, etc.

However, recording "a broadcast or cable programme solely for the purpose of enabling it to be viewed or listened to at a more convenient time does not infringe any copyright in the broadcast or cable programme or in any work included in it."

Photographing TV shows is OK too.

But I was talking about "There's no allowance in UK law for making backups (the only exemption written into law is computer programs) " which I thought was the topic that was brought up.

aliEnRIK

superscaper wrote: »

Maybe the OP could give some specifics, i.e. what is it intended for? If for example it's to be played back on a DVD player then any type of compression isn't going to work, only a dual layer or having to split it across discs. Assuming of course that these are legally copied films.

Thats really NOT true Scraper. VOB (DVD) files are by their very nature compressed, SHRINK just compresses them more

Marty_J

superscaper wrote: »

But I was talking about "There's no allowance in UK law for making backups (the only exemption written into law is computer programs) " which I thought was the topic that was brought up.

Ah, I see we're talking at cross purposes.

There's a review of the law about that sort of thing currently going on. Copying your VHS tapes onto DVD would seem to me to be in the same boat as copying your CDs onto your iPod.