New pirate eBay goods: demo DVD

[EvilGuy]

gizmomelb wrote:
I agree that j_tramiel cannot sell the DVD as his own work, but he seems well within the law to charge a modest extra for his time, materials and effort for creating a compilation of public domain works.

By the looks of things its a DVD of video recordings of the demos. Big deal.

Then he has sat down and made a nice fancy front end for the DVD.

Video of the demos, the copyright there is questionable. It'd cost so much $$$ just to work it out in the courts that you'd be a nitwit to even try and sue.

.. and he'd own the copyright to the DVD front end, so if you did get his DVD and you did put it online, then "you" would be the pirate.

Either way, the DVD looked cool from the screen shots. Shame he won't produce it.

[EvilGuy]

Yes, the copyright is owned by the creators.

Yep, and copyrights, like most of the other areas of IP are really only valuable if you enforce them.

And anyone who wants to enforce 10+ year old copyright on scene demos.. hehehe. Whilst they're throwing their money away they can throw some my way.  :-)