Thursday, October 31, 2013
Assumptions
People make assumptions off the smallest things they hear. This lead to conclusions that are much bigger. For example, I heard that you can't show a movie in a public place. Due to copyright laws this is not ethical. When I was telling this to someone else they had never heard of such a thing. They think it is perfectly fine to do an activity like that. Their movie they can do what they want with it. I never looked into my assumption which may or may not be true. I could have been organizing neighborhood movie parties for all I know. I wonder what other assumptions I have made that have led to bigger conclusions. Who knows!!
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Yea... copyrights are confusing... but I think they do help in a way. If we were allowed to show movies in public places freely movie revenues would go down etc as poeple freeloaded off of more readily available movies. As revenues go down the companies would just find different ways to restrict our movie sharing themselves kindof like Apple does with music etc on Itunes. It's complicated...
ReplyDeleteI heard that you can have public viewing of movies as long as you don't charge for it. Don't know if that's true.
ReplyDeleteShowing movie in a public place is a pretty confusing one. I've heard a different story when talking to a lawyer about it.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of my mission, we were allowed to get together as a district on Christmas and watch the latest Disney movie we'd missed, but the tradition was discontinued after a lawyer told my mission president that such was against copyright law because an "official group" (the Church) was organizing the event. Had some random citizen organized the event and we all happened to show up, it would be OK.
ReplyDelete(At least that's how I understood the issue. I'm sure the information got goofed up as it moved through the grapevine.)
It really is a shame that instead of coming down to "is this against the law" it comes down to "can a lawyer make this seem like it is against the law".
ReplyDeleteLaws like these don't define what is ethical.
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