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Originally Posted by fredr123
Buying a DVD doesn't give you the right to rip it to your iPad to watch on the plane, for example.
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Only if the DVD contains DRM, which 99% of commercial discs do. Had the digital locks provisions not been included in C-11 this would have been totally ok.
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New section 29.22 of the Act provides that a consumer has the right to reproduce for a private purpose any work or protected subject-matter if the source copy was legally obtained (this has been referred to as the “format-shifting” provision). Under subsection (3), this provision is only applicable where Part VIII does not apply. In other words, this exception would not apply to the copy of a musical work made onto an audio recording medium as defined in section 79 of the Act. Bill C-11 does not propose to amend section 79, for example to refer to media and devices. Therefore, under the bill, reproductions for private use on anything other than CD-Rs and Mini-Disc will not give rise to any remuneration to authors, publishers, performers or sound recordings makers.58 The extent of the format shifting right, though, is more circumscribed than the private copying right found at section 80 of the Act. As well, the format shifting exception does not apply to works protected by technological protection measures.
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But in reality I think you're safe to rip away. The odds that anyone gets prosecuted for copying a movie to their iPad for personal use are basically nonexistent.