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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | ??
What are you referring to? | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yepp,
that was understood.
I was asking if there is a current case that you are referring to | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 27, 2007 | | Posts: 175 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
Yepp,
that was understood.
I was asking if there is a current case that you are referring to They are claiming the copyright inappropriately. If the copied information is on the back of the DVD, word for word, they do not own the copyright to that information, the releasing studio does. DD. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 273 |
| | Posted: | | | | I suppose you refer to an overview that doesn't match with the actual back cover content?
Otherwise the text would not be property of the webiste but the DVD distributor...
Such text shouldn't appear in the DB anyway as it conflicts with our rules. There should (hopefully) be No-voters... |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Giga Wizard: Quote:
Quoting Rooster6975:
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They are claiming the copyright inappropriately. If the copied information is on the back of the DVD, word for word, they do not own the copyright to that information, the releasing studio does.
If there would be an overview on the DVD cover, they would not have to copy this from another website? The reason I can think of is to save typing it up themselves, ie being lazy. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
Quoting Giga Wizard:
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Quoting Rooster6975:
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They are claiming the copyright inappropriately. If the copied information is on the back of the DVD, word for word, they do not own the copyright to that information, the releasing studio does.
If there would be an overview on the DVD cover, they would not have to copy this from another website?
The reason I can think of is to save typing it up themselves, ie being lazy. But places that do make it a lot easier to copy and paste rather than write out word for word... there are certainly many times if I can't find the 'rear cover overview' online to copy and paste I wouldn't bother write it out and just submit without it. | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sorry, it's the way I read your post, not trying to make a joke about anything.
If the submitted overview is directly copied word for word from a site that has copyright over the words that they have chosen to use to describe a film (ie they've not copied it from a different DVD cover themselves) then I fully agree that the only correct way to vote would be no. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | In the case of LOTR, my opinion would be to take the overview from the non-extended edition. That was what was done with the RoboCop Trilogy if I recall.
I'm pretty sure the words self-written do not mean to copy an overview from a web site. In fact, on the very first page of the contribution rules the statement: Please don't submit content from a third party database pretty much prohibits that. The reason for that statement is to prevent copyrighted data from being used. I would vote no. | | | | Kevin | | | | Last edited: by antolod |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | There's no copyright violation because the contributed overview is not an exact copy of the source and the used source is the publisher of the DVD which doesn't contain an overview. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | The reason I voted yes is, it was taken from the A-Film website who is the media publisher of this DVD.
Although, I must say, Antolod's suggestion of taking the overview of another release may be a better solution. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
Chris |
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