Just read the licence carefully, otherwise you might discover that anything you produce using him belongs to the company. All very Rumpelstiltskin.

What if you obtain someone by peer-to-peer sharing?

I think you can share with a friend, but only for non-concurrent use.

You simply have a licence to use him and you may not make a backup.

Hey babe. Wanna make a derivative work?

could be freely distributable for non-commercial use

There's quite a few of them in some of the bars in town of a Friday night I'm told. Some of the commercial ones as well, but not so many. Although you'd want to make sure your antivirus systems were up to date...

What if you obtain someone by peer-to-peer sharing?

Antibiotics & strict quarantine.

What if you obtain someone by peer-to-peer sharing?

Then you should see a doctor immediately and get tested.

You simply have a licence to use him and you may not make a backup.

Do I own the medium he's stored in? Will they replace him if he breaks?

Besides, it depends...

He could be freely distributable for non-commercial use.

What if you obtain someone by peer-to-peer sharing?

Hi Mum, look what followed me home, can I keep him?

No. Strictly speaking, the person who followed you home is not yours to keep. You simply have a licence to use him and you may not make a backup.

Can I still borrow books from the library?

Yes, but someone will have to follow you home.

And thus enters the news story which dare not speak its name...

Yeh, I was thinking of a Kim Basinger interview in Rolling STone

Not that it matters, but I suspect it was Vanity Fair – prompting her father to send her a package containing an orange & some duct tape & a note to along the lines of: "Next time you feel the…

Both.

But also Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C.

Yeh, I was thinking of a Kim Basinger interview in Rolling Stone where she mentioned the possibility of arrest if she returned to her home state…

"Laws of silliness, stupidity and downright unenforcibility shall be rendered void by the simple fact that the majority of the population will ignore them."

(Clause b does however state that cunning lawyers will endlessly extract many guineas from…

But also Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C. , according to this link

A friend of mine who is a legal secretary in Oklahoma says it's illegal there to own more than two sex toys…

"So it looks like the bill will go forward with a provision that would outlaw using your PVR or VCR to record much of the schedule on TV One and TV2."

So that means that those of us who do not have broadband access to the net, would…

But also Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C. , according to this link

They don't investigate car thefts or burglaries, so why should time-shifted recordings be especially privileged.

I was really hoping they'd remove that contracting out provision

It may not be too bad. They'll have the right to agree with you something else, but they'll have to be pretty clear or face the wrath of the consumer guarantees act.

Well, I guess our secret mole in the Committee is on progress to build a piece of legislation that will continue to force consumers to revolt and break the law. Good work!

It was apparently made for a Christmas tape and never broadcast. But now it has a home on the intertubes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzxdulMGN4

Maybe this problem can be solved by an ammendment allowing police discretion over whether or not to prosecute.

Didn't Greg O'Connor from the Police Association say that under the proposed legislation the Police would be forced to investigate each and every reported case of time-shifted recording?

Plus, if your friends come around, you can't show them the programmes you've time-shifted off the telly.

Now that would be one enchanted evening...

So capturing free content streamed off the TVNZ on demand site is now forbidden. go figure

Plus, if your friends come around, you can't show them the programmes you've time-shifted off the telly.

So it looks like the bill will go forward with a provision that would outlaw using your PVR or VCR to record much of the schedule on TV One and TV2. Note that TVNZ specifically said in its submission that the measure was unrealistic and unnecessary. Go figure.

Maybe this…

We also recommend rewording section 84(1)(c) to clarify that a time-shifted recording must not be made from an on-demand
service.

So capturing free content streamed off the TVNZ on demand site is now forbidden. go figure,

I have no problem witn this provided that at the time of purchase they get a contract signed and witnessed by their agent and the purchaser.

Good point. The status of shrink-wrap contracts is pretty much untested in NZ.

I have no problem witn this provided that at the time of purchase they get a contract signed and witnessed by their agent and the purchaser.

Are there still laws on the books protecting the rights of buggy whip manufacturers?

You'll have to delete your digital copy if you part company with the original CD. The sunset clause is gone. And the committee wants the bill amended "to make it clearer that copyright owners always have the option of contracting out of all of the permitted acts.

Meh. May as…