![]() ![]() ![]() So if we keep reading we discover something else that's important.In 109(b)(1)(A) we discover that notwithstanding 109(a) above, it's not legal to rent, lease, or lend without authorization from the copyright holder sound recordings (n.b. This means that it's not legal to sell copies that are unlawfully made (read: infringing) but that it is legal to sell or rent copies that ultimately were sold off in the first instance by the copyright holder himself.The thing is, there's more to 109 than just 109(a). While only the copyright holder is allowed to transfer the ownership or posession of copies, anyone who later becomes an owner of a particular lawful copy may then also transfer the ownership or posession of such copies as he owns. But this may be, and generally is ameliorated elsewhere.17 USC 109(a) indicates that notwithstanding 106(3) above, the owner of a particular copy that has been lawfully made may personally, or may authorize others to, "sell or otherwise dispose of the posession of that copy or phonorecord."Thus there's now a substantially large section carved out of 106. to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending."Thus there is a blanket ban on anyone distributing in any way any work that's copyrighted. There's some material there that pertains to computer software as well - the reasons why you can generally rent games for consoles but not for computers - but I'm skipping that here.17 USC 106 states that the copyright holder "has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following. You guys suck.I'll go through the statutes relevant to this for music. That's why I prefer the term "record industry" since it isn't as needlessly (and illogically) specific as "RIAA".-edit again-quote:I just never thought of it because I never that it was that great an idea.Are you kidding? I'd rent f'n everything.Īll this and no one even bothered to post or cite the relevant statute. Apparently there's supposed to be some moratorium on hella just released stuff, but either what I was looking for wasn't, or that's not strictly observed.(CDs, DVDs, and games all have "no resale" stamped on them, which draws the eye when they're sitting up on the rack at the used book/music/game store.)I bet you *could* run a CD rental store in the US, but you'd have to go to court to defend it, and it'd probably be cheaper just to have you killed.-edit-And the RIAA is not a legal entity, it doesn't have a "Jurisdiction" it's just a collection of record labels, which happens to span the entire f'n world. They rent singles, too, not just whole albums. NIN's The Downward Spiral had Dead Souls from the crow soundtrack in it, for example. So imports of your favorite bands are CHEAPER than the local copies, despite being theoretically illegal.) This is also why Japanese releases often have extra tracks, or other random features. The RIAJ also takes a cut of all MD sales, so the labels are compensated on that end as well.Basically, the market is just different over there. (Bought a shit ton while I was there.)So the reason is that the CD people over there DO have a deal with the rental places, the way VHS worked here. They don't take 'em off when they sell 'em, either. They have a bunch of "approved for rental stickers. They have _some_ clue about their jurisdiction, which is why they haven't even been fucking with Canadians.Well, that's because the RIAJ handles it over there. ![]() They also have kiosks that allow them to create custom "hits" CDs for about $1 a song.I wonder why the RIAA fucko squad isn't over there after them?Probably because it's going on "over there" and that last 'A' in RIAA is for "America". ![]() It's a rather common practice for the Japanese to rent CDs and copy them to MD. Quote:Originally posted by R2P2:quote:Originally posted by Gunf1ghter:CD Rental is supposedly huge in Japan. ![]()
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