Re:Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content
by ratww on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:45AM
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What are you talking about? That's exactly how it works for VHS, DVDs, CDs, Blurays, books.
Once I buy media, nobody is coming to my house to prevent me from watching it just because there was some legal issues between unrelated parties. That's up to them to solve on their own, in courts.
Just because we have ways to revoke users' access to legally bought media doesn't mean it's ok to do.
Re:Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content
by Wurdan on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:44AM
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The gaming industry and the RIAA are in an interesting situation regarding compound works. Some games license music for their soundtrack, and the games developers want to license streamers to broadcast their games. But the streamer is not covered by the terms of the music license, so their content gets DMCA'ed. But even if the terms of the music license were to be adapted to allow for live streaming of the game, how could one detect that a song is being played as part of a game stream with the right license?
So how would this law work? The reality is that compound works are always, always made up of third party bits of copyright. So are films required to clear any music in perpetuity, no matter what? Goodbye to musicals. What happens if rights are in dispute and a supplier loses the rights to the title, or parts of a title (this happens a lot)? What happens if an estate of a creator files to have the IP in a character revert to them after fifty years?
How are you going to have this regulation pass in every country in the world at the same time?
Or is this one of these things that's easy to glibly say but basically impossible to do?