{"id":4122,"date":"2008-06-12T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-12T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:33:00","slug":"dvd-rental-stores-copyright-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/4122-dvd-rental-stores-copyright-debacle.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD rental stores copyright debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video and DVD rental stores across South Africa may face legal action if they are found contravening copyright laws, said law firm Webber Wentzel on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>This came after the Cape High Court interdicted Mr Video and 22 of its franchises from renting out DVDs that had copyright infringements. <\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s Anthony Norton said the franchise had imported at least 100 recently released films and rented them to the public without consent from the studios who owned the copyright. <\/p>\n<p>He said the DVDs also had not been acquired through Nu Metro, the authorised licensee in South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>The firm said that Mr Video acknowledged it had infringed copyright laws and had been interdicted from renting out the movies. <\/p>\n<p>Webber Wentzel was acting for major Hollywood studios including Universal, Warner Bros, United International Pictures and the Disney Studio. <\/p>\n<p>Norton said other video and DVD rental stores across the country faced similar action if they were found infringing copyright laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=122698\"><strong>DVD Copyright discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video and DVD rental stores across South Africa may face legal action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}