Fair Use and the DVD

The "Fair Use" claims that didn't seem to influence a San Fransisco judge in the DVD X Copy case rise from the dead to muster up another convincing argument, this time in an unusual C|Net article exploring the legalities of DVD to Pocket PC 1.0 developed by an Amsterdam company that's carefully watching the evolution of the legal issues in the U.S. The application is designed to allow you to copy a DVD onto a 128MB or 256MB memory card by highly compressing the results. CEO of Makayama Software Vincent Verweij argues that his software is "a textbook example of fair use."

posted to IP Law on March 10, 2004