The fair-use rule is a privilege that permits someone other than the owner of the
copyright to use the copyrighted material in a reasonable and limited manner
without the owner??™s consent.
Users can sell copyrighted works that they own. You can sell your books, DVDs, audio
CDs, and other materials as long as you are not retaining a copy for yourself, or (of
course) selling copies of the work without permission from the copyright holder. Some
people arguing in favor of file trading with copyrighted materials claim that the DMCA
infringes on their ability to ???share??? content they ???own.??? In fact, under existing copyright
law they do not ???own??? the copyrighted material and certainly do not possess the rights to
redistribute the content unless they are reselling it in an allowed manner.
Copyrights will expire at some time in the future and fall into the public domain. Basically,
this point raises the same issue as with the first item: Your DVD movie falls into the public
domain (eventually), but to freely copy the content you must again circumvent the
protection inherent on the DVD, and by doing so, you run afoul of the DMCA.
It is important to realize the DMCA is very vague about how it defines many of the acts that are
illegal. What is a ???protection scheme???? Some argue that it could be nearly anything.
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