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Movies on Invisionfree
Topic Started: Feb 19 2007, 11:33 AM (501 Views)
Kasley
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My friend and I have been arguing about this for hours.

Question: Is it legal to place a movie on your message board?

My friend Stacey says it is, I say it's not.

My argument: Movies are copyrighted and by placing them on a website without permission from the director and author of the movie, it is an act of copyright infringement.

Stacey's argument: There are message boards about thousands of topics, especially books and movies, and there is no copyright infringement because most of them have disclaimers. If one puts a disclaimer with the movie on their message board, copyright infringement has not taken place.

So what Stacey and I would like to know: is it legal to place a movie on your message board?

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Aaron
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A blast from the past.

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3.1 Prohibited Content:
Users may not post, upload, link to, or email any Content that contains, promotes, gives instruction about, or provides prohibited Content. Prohibited Content includes any Content that breaks any local, state, county, national or international law. Prohibited Content also includes: (a) Content that infringes upon any rights (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks);

You can not put Copyrighted movies on your site, you can talk about them but not place them on your board, regardless of copyright infringement or not, I beleave the disclaimer is actually an urban ledgen.

(There may be one expection on this rule which I will check when some one gets on)
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Kasley
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Thanks so much Aaron.

My friend Stacey is a very stubborn person, and hopefully now she'll believe me.

Thanks for clearing this matter up. :) Though now I'm a bit curious as to what the expection is ^_^
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Ben
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Quantum-locked when observed.

Disclaimers do not give you the right to distribute copyrighted content, which is what you would be doing if you put movies to which someone else owns the copyright up on a website without the copyright holder's explicit permission.

The entire point of copyright is that it gives the owner of the intellectual property the right to decide who can display their work. If putting a simple disclaimer up on one's website was enough to waive such a right, then copyright would be neither a worthwhile nor effective tool for protecting one's intellectual property.
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Kasley
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Thanks Aaron and Ben for supporting my argument. :)
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