okay why is it illegal to burn a copy of a dvd if you never intend to sell it?

Question

I am confused about this a little. I thought it was okay for personal use only? So I want to copy some of my kiddie movies so they last longer but they are protected. So then what even is the point of a dvd burner ? Can you get permission from the movie maker ?Also what kind of dvd's are you allowed to copy?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It's 100% legal to make a back up copy or your own DVD as long as you keep proof of purchase (like the original DVD case with the label, or the DVD disc even if it's broken). What you can't do is sell, gift, or lend the back up. And if you sell of gift or throw away the original DVD you must do the same with the back up too, OR destroy it. By the way you are only allowed to make have ONE back-up at a time (you can't more than one, you can make a second one only if you the first one is broken or lost). As for the DVD protection, Yes... many DVD include some kind of anti-copy protection... but there are some programs that allow you to beat the protection.

Answer 3

You can legally burn a copy of a movie you have PURCHASED in order to do exactly what you are wanting to do.. have a back up. A lot of DVD's are protected (at least they try to copy protect them) because there are more people out there who want to copy / keep a movie with out paying for it.

You have to think of it like a book. If you have a book you can read it all you want as many times as you want. However if someone else wants to read it.. you have to give them the book. Thus only one person at a time can read it. If you make a copy of DVD and the someone else wants to watch it and you lend them a copy and keep a copy.. well.. you've violated the copyright license. By doing so you have 'prevented' a certain amount of revenue from being acquired by the artist(s) that created the DVD regardless of this revenue being acquired through sale or rental.

While I don't think ANYONE can argue that actors, singers, performers are overpaid, it is still their right to reap the rewards of their efforts. It should also be kept in mind that the amount of effort and investement ($$) that goes into making a movies these days is enormous and therefore the return on that investment must be recouped from what ever means possible.

Ok.. enough of that.. do I copy movies and music... yeah.. I must admit that I do. Should I? Nope. Do I lose sleep over it? Nope.

Good luck with your personal delima and I hope this helps!

Answer 4

Good question. You SHOULD be allowed to make "backup" copies of your DVDs for personal use. If you did so, I doubt that you'd run much of a risk of prosecution.

DVD burners can be used to backup data and for creation of video DVDs from non proteted content.

The only DVDs that can be (legally) copied are ones that ren't copyrighted.

Making an "illegal" copy for your own use requires 2 things:
1) a program to "crack" the copy protection
2) a program that actually copies the DVD

Answer 5

They want to make money off of every copy there is out there.
You can burn homemade movies on a dvd burner and that is mostly the legal point of having one.

Answer 6

Depends on what country you live in whether this is legal or not.

The copyright laws vary place to place so you need to tell us where you are if you want some info on that.

DVD burners are so you can burn stuff that you have created not for copying other people's work.
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Answer 7

I would reword the part of the question about kiddie movies. I assume you mean Disney movies, but it sounds bad. You may be reported. Sorry I didn't answer the question though.