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« on: September 13, 2010, 04:55:20 PM »
This may sound ludicrous, but is giving away the DVD's for free still constitute copyright infringement?
The reason I ask this is that there a number of fan films for Star Trek that have an arrangement with Paramount studios that as long as they don't make any monetary gains directly from DVD sales they don't care. The DVD is free if you buy one of their other products... posters, toys, etc.
I remember around 10 years ago I frequently saw on ebay sales for audio or video "bootleg" items consisting of a the purchase of a t-shirt or even a ball-point pen the receiving the illicit item for "free" as it were. Now ebay is so huge and much harder to police, that type of ROIO (your new word of the day= Recording Of Indeterminate Origin) is sold so blatantly now its mind boggling. Plain old TV broadcasts or camcorder audience-shot concerts are presented in fancy DVD packaging and sold as a legitimate product all day long.