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In January 1984, the Supreme Court ruled that home recording of television programs on a VCR violates no law. "One may search the Copyright Act in vain for any sign that the elected representatives of the millions of people who watch television every day have made it unlawful to copy a program for later viewing at home, or have enacted a flat prohibition against the sale of machines that make such copying possible." (Sony vs. Betamax).
New technologies are now challenging the 1984 decision. Click at left for key dates: |
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