Copyright issues for home videotaping

Carolyn Lin

Telecommunications Policy, 1985, vol. 9, issue 4, 334-350

Abstract: The consumers' home use of videocassette recorders to record TV programmes or motion pictures has concerned copyright owners, who fear that their economic interest will be jeopardized. The 1976 US Copyright Act is silent on the issue of private, non-commercial home videotaping. The US Supreme Court, in the Betamax case, has ruled that private, non-commercial home videotaping is not a copyright infringement. However, neither the law nor the ruling has actually resolved the fundamental copyright problem associated with home videotaping. This article proposes a number of public and private policy options for reaching an optimal solution.

Keywords: Copyright; Videotaping; USA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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