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Is this Piracy?

  • 19-05-2008 4:18pm
    #1
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,460 ✭✭✭


    Bit of a light hearted question here, based on this thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055294978

    Basically, Gnarls Barkley, have released their album, The Odd Couple, for free download. Catch is, it's backwards.

    If someone were to download that, bring it into an audio editor, and reverse it, so that it's the right way round, would they be breaking copyright law?


Comments

  • #2
    hada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭hada


    all depends on the license attached to the download. i.e. if it says that you can't edit it in such a way as to "put it the right way round", etc, then if you do edit it as such, then you are breaching copyright.


  • #3
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,460 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    But surely, once you download it, you own it, and can do what you want with it?


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Blisterman wrote: »
    But surely, once you download it, you own it, and can do what you want with it?
    No. The copyright owner owns the copyright at all times (unless specifically waivered, or until the term of copyright has expired), you are subject to useage license which can dictate what you can and cannot do with the files.


  • #5
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Having downloaded it myself, there is no kind of copyright statement provided whatsoever.

    However, I understand that this doesn't allow you to share it with others - it's still implied that the album is provided to you for your own personal use (asking for your personal details implies, "one copy per person"). This means that there's probably nothing preventing you from using Audacity to reverse the file and get the correct album (copyright says nothing about your right to view/play a copyrighted work in forwards or backwards time), but you definitely couldn't provide the corrected version to anyone else.

    While most copyrights would prevent you from making changes to the copyrighted work, it would be tough to argue that reversing a recording is "changing" the work - it's no different (technically) from playing a vinyl backwards. That is, you don't actually make any changes to the content of the audio whatsoever - the audio content is identical whether it's backwards or forwards - you're simply playing it in a different direction.


  • #6
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    doesn't piracy involve ships? eyepatches and parrots etc.
    carries a capital sentence in england?
    unauthorised copying is fairly minor compared to piracy


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