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Sun, 21 September 2003 12:59

MonkeyPhonic
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I don't know about the music industry, but in games the distribution is via the publisher and the copywright is their issue, any big publisher has teretorial coverage, so EA europ deals with european release, EA US deals with US and so on, so in games this is either not the case, or games publishers are very cautious. IE Renegade is released under european copy write in europe and US copywrite in the US.

If what you say is true then if you copied a US version of Renegade in the UK then the US copywrite would be in effect. At which point you start to realise the reason that copywrite lawyers drive expensive cars. Complecated laws lead to well fed lawyers.

Sir Phoenixx

The copyright laws default to the country in which the copyrighted object in question was copyrighted in. For example, if a video game, or music cd was created/copyrighted in America, the American copyright laws are used, doesn't matter if you're in America, or the UK. If the video game or music was created or copyrighted in the UK, the UK copyright laws are used, even if you live in America.

If you live in the UK, and you're ripping tracks from American music CDs (or downloading and redistributing tracks originally from American music CDs), you are subject to American copyright laws, in this case.

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		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Sat, 20 September 2003 18:32
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: boma57 on Sat, 20 September 2003 18:46
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Sat, 20 September 2003 18:48
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: boma57 on Sat, 20 September 2003 19:18
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Sat, 20 September 2003 19:22
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: boma57 on Sat, 20 September 2003 19:38
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Sat, 20 September 2003 19:41
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Sat, 20 September 2003 21:41
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: MonkeyPhonic on Sun, 21 September 2003 04:36
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Sun, 21 September 2003 08:52
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: MonkeyPhonic on Sun, 21 September 2003 09:57
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: MonkeyPhonic on Sun, 21 September 2003 10:06
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Sir Phoenixx on Sun, 21 September 2003 10:13
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Sun, 21 September 2003 10:19
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Sir Phoenixx on Sun, 21 September 2003 10:34
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Sun, 21 September 2003 11:02
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Sun, 21 September 2003 12:07
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: MonkeyPhonic on Sun, 21 September 2003 12:59
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Sun, 21 September 2003 14:54
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Sir Phoenixx on Sun, 21 September 2003 15:54
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Sun, 21 September 2003 16:00
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Mon, 22 September 2003 17:15
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: General Havoc on Tue, 23 September 2003 06:48
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: NoX on Tue, 23 September 2003 07:32
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Tue, 23 September 2003 10:54
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Sir Phoenixx on Tue, 23 September 2003 14:57
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: setstyle on Thu, 25 September 2003 13:49
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Xtrm2Matt on Thu, 25 September 2003 13:50
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: setstyle on Thu, 25 September 2003 13:55
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Nodbugger on Thu, 25 September 2003 15:00
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Thu, 25 September 2003 15:21
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: ohmybad on Thu, 25 September 2003 15:41
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: Imdgr8one on Thu, 25 September 2003 15:45
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Thu, 25 September 2003 16:00
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: dufis791 on Thu, 25 September 2003 16:12
		file sharing, LEGAL w/ friends? By: warranto on Thu, 25 September 2003 16:17

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