Re: Re: Statute of limitations on copyright infringement

On 4/10/06, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:

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The public include the radio stations. The general practice is that the record companies lend LP's to the radio stations to be performed at their places and when they no longer need the LP's, they return them back to the record companies or destroy them. They don't have the right to sell or give away the LP's unless they are authorized by the record companies.

A good analogy that I can think of is the movies that the theaters receive from the companies. The theaters can't sell the movies to the public or even give away to other people or entities unless they are permitted to do so. A thief who break in a movie theater and steal the movies so that he can watch them at a secret place without paying a penny can't be simply charged with theft.

Another analogy is stealing books (think of the seventh Harry Potter book) before they are released to the public. (This is not to be confused with books that are sold to the public before release date by mistake such as few incidents with the sixth Harry Potter book.)

Suppose that you are correct that stealing LP's from a radio station is not actionable under the copyright law. What remedy does the copyright owner have in this case? I can't imagine that the thief in the above example on movies is untouchable to the copyright owners.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
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Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,645

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Thu Apr 13 2006 - 22:45:45 GMT