[Year 12 IT Apps] Jailbreaking your iPhone and ripping DVDs: Both now perfectly legal

[ken price]

The original article referred I think to changes in US law, which don't
necessarily apply in Australia. So i guess my question extends back to
Stuart also - do we know if this change affects Australian lawl?

Both issues are well worth discussion in a classroom setting, but it would
be good to know the Australian legal situation from our role as teachers. At
present the SmartCopying website is pretty much gospel as far as copyright
is concerned, so any changes would need to reflected there. When things are
unclear there is a real risk that a teacher somewhere will end up in court.

Back to the region codes - the copyright council website suggest that region
codes aren't "protection measures", so Mark's statement certainly  appears
to be correct:

"In many cases, DVDs are region-coded for playing only in particular
countries or groups of countries. Teachers can nevertheless play the DVDs in
a  multi-region player, or re-set the region coding (we understand this can
sometimes be done via the remote control) or they may have the region-code
control in the DVD player modified so it plays DVDs from relevant regions. "

http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit005/cit073/wp0042

Cheers
Ken

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mark - what is the source of that information?
>
> I'm interested because (so far as I am aware, and according to the
> SmartCopying webste) it remains illegal to bypass the protection on many
> commercial DVDs.
>
> The reason given for it being illegal would seem to also apply to the
> region encoding. Different thing, but still a Technological Protection
> Measure I'd think.
>
> from http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/529 :
>
> *"SCHOOLS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FORMAT SHIFT IF MAKING THE FORMAT SHIFT COPY
> CIRCUMVENTS AN ACCESS CONTROL TECHNOLOGICAL PROTECTION MEASURE* Most
> commercial DVDs are protected by an access control technological
> protection measure<http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902>(access control TPM). Schools are not permitted to circumvent this access
> control TPM<http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902>to make a format shift copy (eg, by using software such as deCSS or DVD
> Shrink)."
>
>
>
> Cheers, ken
>
> TASITE www.tasite.tas.edu.au
>
>
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> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>wrote:
>
>> On a similar note, you should know that DVD region encoding has no support
>> under copyright or any other law, and you are free to use any means to
>> circumvent region limitations imposed by movie distributors.
>>
>
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