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Themescules:
I saw this ebay auction and was wondering if this would be considered copyright infringement to the Stooges and The Besser family, plus this guy also has other Stooge related DVD's that he has "Made" himself.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5530458647
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&since=30&userid=tvshowclassics&include=0&rows=50&sort=3
Check out the way he worded this auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5523042537
What do you guys think?
123cagney:
Anytime you MAKE a COPY of someone elses product and sell it for profit,Yes, that would be copyright infringment. Ebay is suppose to be on top of this stuff. However I think selling your old (authentic) junk would be ok.
shemps#1:
Yepper, to quote Judas Priest the dude is "breakin' the law, breakin' the law!"
123cagney:
BUT... he may end up being the ONLY one releasing Besser on DVD. Law breaker- 1 columbia-0
Pilsner Panther:
--- Quote from: 123cagney on October 26, 2004, 07:06:21 PM ---BUT... he may end up being the ONLY one releasing Besser on DVD. Law breaker- 1 columbia-0
--- End quote ---
Looking at this guy's product list, he's been duplicating and selling a lot of old films, and how many could he have the rights to? He probably doesn't even have the rights to that Stooges caricature he's using on the Besser shorts box... I've seen it somewhere before.
So here we have a good old moral dilemma... I'd like to own those Columbia Buster Keaton shorts myself (they're a lot funnier than Jim Kline and other Keaton commentators would have you believe), but I don't want to encourage piracy, either. So, I'll (reluctantly) pass them up.
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