Apparently several stores in Fairbanks now think I’m some sort of criminal. A project I’m working on requires me to make some duplicates of our corporate video. The video is on DVD. I take an early lunch and head over to Office Max. They’ve happily accepted my DVDs in the past.
“I’m sorry, we don’t do DVDs here,” states the counter person.
“But… you’ve done them before.”
“No. I don’t think so,” says she, challenging my ability to recall the past. “They’re a pain in the butt. Only pirates copy DVDs.”
I move on to Kinkos, where the person in line in front of me wants to copy every page of a book at 125%. “Sure!” says the counter person.
My turn.
“I need to make some copy’s of this DVD. Any chance you guys can do that?”
“Sorry, we don’t copy DVDs. Legal issues, you know.”
“But we own all of the content on the DVD. There’s no licensing issue.”
“No, can’t do that.”
A few more failed attempts and I finally find someone who will do it. I should stake out their building to see if they’re raided by the MPAA. Either that or convince my boss to invest in one of these.
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1 MizMagee // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Yay, Kinkos! Because everyone knows copying every page of a book at 125% makes it a derivative work covered under fair use and not a copyright violation, right? Oh, yeah – not!
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