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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 10, 2014 12:16 PM
Perhaps I'm just being nit-picky, but I saw an ebay auction for "Reel Images" magazines.
Of course, we have all seen assorted old catalogs and film magazines being sold on ebay, but I hadn't seen a still continuing (quite successfully) company's magazines being sold by someone other than the company, which, in my opinion, has the only right to make money off of past issues of they're own magazine.
... or am I wrong? Perhaps, if Steve Osbourne doesn't have a problem with it (I e-mailed him about it) then I assume I shouldn't have a problem with it as well. We'll see if Steve contacts the ebay seller and if the auction is taken down.
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Guy Taylor, Jr.
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 606
From: Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted December 10, 2014 12:24 PM
You have every right to sell any magazine, book, newspaper, record, cd, film, VHS tape, etc. You don't own the content but the physical source is yours to sale. The publisher made his cut when the new unit of whatever went out.
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted December 13, 2014 12:27 AM
Dominique, I believe Joe meant to me. But Joe, I was in Toronto (Canada) before and now have returned home to Indonesia.
Dominique, the wording "for sale in Indonesia only" does not apply only to books but also for CD, Music Cassette, DVD, and even international foods such as Mentos, Oreo, Lays, etc. The reason is as I said before because they are made locally in Indonesia and the owner of copyright has agreed to lower the fee, then, it is not rigth to sale in other countries, especially those countries with higher incomes.
http://www.madhousemusic.co.uk/images/cass/casshitsINDO2final.jpg
(Written there is in Indonesian which means "for sale in Indonesia only")
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CD-Eiffel-65-Europop-Rare-marked-for- sale-in-Indonesia-only-15-tracks-/171007408401
Above is an Indonesian CD is illegally sold in Australia.
Just to give you an idea, a brandnew CD from main band is sold at around $9-12 when first time is released. A DVD from a blockbuster movies is between $1-5.
How if we resell it?, it is not as simple as you say. No matter it is new or used, if you sell it outside Indonesia, it has breached the rule of "for sale in Indonesia only"
Beside the above reason, the regulation of place to sell can also based on market distribution contract with particular company in one region. For example, it was not right to sell Mountain films releases in USA, because the same titile may have also released by Ken Films, v.v. But this is not the same situation with the case in Indonesia that I mentioned previously.
If we are talking copyright, it is a very complicated matter. There is an international body regulate it, i.e. WIPO (www.wipo.int). Here we are not only talking the simple term of "make a copy of something" but goes further to such as performance right, etc. Even an idea can also now be protected.
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