Video copywrite...
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This is probably not the right place to ask...but I'll give it a go, mods please feel free to move.
I have purchased a double casette tape of an old BBC series called 'The Power and the Glory' off of eeeeebay - and would like to convert it to DVD.
I know this may be an odd question in an age of torrenting etc - are their copywrite issues, as I don't want to waste time sending them to one of these conversion companies if they are just going to shake their head and send it back.
Have tried emailing one but no response
I have purchased a double casette tape of an old BBC series called 'The Power and the Glory' off of eeeeebay - and would like to convert it to DVD.
I know this may be an odd question in an age of torrenting etc - are their copywrite issues, as I don't want to waste time sending them to one of these conversion companies if they are just going to shake their head and send it back.
Have tried emailing one but no response
Yes, there are copyright issues. You have the rights to use the tape version for your own viewing but, technically, not for any others - including getting someone else to make copies. However, you are, I believe, tacitly permitted to make your own backup.
If you have a tape player and your own DVD or BluRay writer, you'd probably find it easier/cheaper to get a device like this : http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/honestech-vhs-to-dvd-70-... and do the conversion yourself.
If you have a tape player and your own DVD or BluRay writer, you'd probably find it easier/cheaper to get a device like this : http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/honestech-vhs-to-dvd-70-... and do the conversion yourself.
This would have been permitted under The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014, had it not been quashed after judicial review brought about by rights owners.
You are permitted to make a backup copy of computer programs protected by copyright, but nothing else unfortunately.
You are permitted to make a backup copy of computer programs protected by copyright, but nothing else unfortunately.
Having looked at this myself for some NLA videotapes, this company seems to disagree:
http://www.copymytapes.co.uk/pre-recorded_videotra...
http://www.copymytapes.co.uk/pre-recorded_videotra...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ClimaxDigital-Converter-So...
I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
Ste1987 said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ClimaxDigital-Converter-So...
I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
That doesn't make sense.I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
The tab on videos was a mechanical (interlock) device to prevent you re-recording over the tapes, not copy protection. And even if was, the status of that tab is not passed on the video signal.
Vaud said:
Ste1987 said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ClimaxDigital-Converter-So...
I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
That doesn't make sense.I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
The tab on videos was a mechanical (interlock) device to prevent you re-recording over the tapes, not copy protection. And even if was, the status of that tab is not passed on the video signal.
Most likely an old worn tape was producing something that the capture device interpreted as a Macrovision signal.
marshalla said:
Vaud said:
Ste1987 said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ClimaxDigital-Converter-So...
I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
That doesn't make sense.I bought this for preserving family videos, only £15. My dad had broken the tab on them to prevent them being recorded over, which the software provided recognised and thought it was copyrighted. Managed to find some software called Debut Video Capture which worked perfectly.
The tab on videos was a mechanical (interlock) device to prevent you re-recording over the tapes, not copy protection. And even if was, the status of that tab is not passed on the video signal.
Most likely an old worn tape was producing something that the capture device interpreted as a Macrovision signal.
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