06-11-2004, 07:21 AM
Since we're clarifying misconceptions around here about rights and regions I'm just going to toss out this little thing that's been bugging me.
Region 1 and copyright nationality are independant of each other.
Here is a list of the region codes and their associated regions.
0 No Region Coding
1 United States of America, Canada
2 Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa
3 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia
4 Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America
5 India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries
6 Peoples Republic of China
7 Unused
8 Airlines/Cruise Ships
This web page HERE talks about the regions and laws associated with them in more detail. In particular it talks about the new Region Code Enhancing (RCE).
For copyright laws, I know of at least one series that was licensed for sale in the US but NOT Canada. I paid a prime dollar to "import" the series from the US only to have the right picked up by a Canadian distributor two years later. At least I was the first kid on the block to have the series.
I must need some sleep... I've started rambling again.
Region 1 and copyright nationality are independant of each other.
Here is a list of the region codes and their associated regions.
0 No Region Coding
1 United States of America, Canada
2 Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa
3 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia
4 Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America
5 India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries
6 Peoples Republic of China
7 Unused
8 Airlines/Cruise Ships
This web page HERE talks about the regions and laws associated with them in more detail. In particular it talks about the new Region Code Enhancing (RCE).
For copyright laws, I know of at least one series that was licensed for sale in the US but NOT Canada. I paid a prime dollar to "import" the series from the US only to have the right picked up by a Canadian distributor two years later. At least I was the first kid on the block to have the series.
I must need some sleep... I've started rambling again.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.