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Originally Posted by gideongallery
for the scope of fair use you have no copyright protections whatsoever, so distribution is legal. That why it is perfectly legal for a friend to lend me his vcr copy of smallvile when the power goes out in my house.(as long as he does charge money == non commercial)
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With reference to U.S. law... sharing/distributing a full copy of copyrighted material does NOT fall with the fair use doctrine...
Letting a friend borrow your video is too petty to even discuss... Placing the full copy on a file sharing site; knowing that others can and will copy it is a far cry from fair use.
If you'll read the Fair Use portion of the law, you'll see that copying and distributing material that results in a negative affect on it's market is not fair use..