more on Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

------- Original message -------
From: Richard Wiggins  <richard.wiggins () gmail com>
Sent: 22/4/'05,  5:39

Dave,

Books are NOT included in the new law, conspicuous by their absence. 
The new law obviously was written by the MPAA and the RIAA.  Evidently
the Association of American Publishers was not present at the table.

Here is the definition of a "work" under the new law:

`(3) DEFINITION- In this subsection, the term `work being prepared for
commercial distribution' means--

`(A) a computer program, a musical work, a motion picture or other
audiovisual work, or a sound recording, if, at the time of
unauthorized distribution--

`(i) the copyright owner has a reasonable expectation of commercial
distribution; and

`(ii) the copies or phonorecords of the work have not been
commercially distributed; or

`(B) a motion picture, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution,
the motion picture--

`(i) has been made available for viewing in a motion picture
exhibition facility; and

`(ii) has not been made available in copies for sale to the general
public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing
outside a motion picture exhibition facility.'.

/rich

> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Chris Beck <cbeck () pacanukeha net>
>
> Or a song. Or a book.  Or an article.  Or a piece of software.  Any
> copyrightable work.
> >
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Beck  -  http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com


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