ABC "Nightline" on Home Video Legalities - 1981 (video)

Here are some clips from ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel on the copyright debate, way back in 1981. Why do contemporary news programs not make more use of the excellent "hurtling through space" effect? This makes otherwise drab legal discussions super awesome. Video 1, Video 2, Video 3. (thanks, Jack)

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Anonymous

Glad someone recorded this.
Jennifer Emick

Love the ASCAP report. ASCAP behaves exactly like the mob. I remember they used to come around Gilman and demand we pay for “insurance” (ie protection racket) that cost more than our rent. After we said no so many times, they turned up one night with baseball bats to “persuade” our director.
phasor3000

Of course, that debate took place in an era when copies were analog, i.e. had generation loss, and there was no way to easily and anonymously distribute perfect copies worldwide at virtually no cost, without shipping actual physical media.