Sunday January 27, 2008 Random ramblings
Sunday January 27, 2008 Copyright in a digital era, how does that work?
If I see a programme in the EPG of my TV, on a "Freeview" channel (UK DVB-T digital telly channels), that I'd like to watch but can't at that time and if I then later instruct my computer to download that broadcasted programme via P2P, am I violating the copyrights of the rightsholders of that work?
(Imagine I am in a jurisdiction which recognises time-shifting as "fair-dealing" or "fair-use", as is the case in both the UK and Ireland. Imagine also that the downloaded programme will not be of appreciably better quality than the DVB-T MPEG stream my TV would have received. Does the answer change if I can not be certain the downloaded copy was made from the broadcast (e.g. if it was a film say, rather than a programme specific to the Freeview channel)?).
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