Re: Censorship by the BBC?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:58:06 GMT, Drsolly said:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > * Drsolly:
> >
> > > The purpose of the different "regions" on DVD, is to stop people buying a
 
> > > DVD where it's cheapest, and get them to buy the higher-priced (but 
> > > identical) version instead. People who buy the cheaper version and import
 
> > > it, are called "Grey-marketers", an epithet that sounds like they're doing 
> > > something naughty, which they aren't.
> >
> > Importing copyrighted material into the EU for business purposes is
> > illegal unless you've got permission from the copyright owner. 8-(
> > Copyright law usually allows for geographic restrictions on
> > distribution, for precisely the reason you mentioned.
>  
> I hadn't known that

I'm pretty sure that the US laws say something similar - it's what they
use to bust people who import counterfeit CD/handbags/etc...

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