In the US, laws and court cases provide Americans with the freedom to "format shift" their music from CDs to a computer to an iPod, and the freedom to "time shift" video has allowed digital video recorders to flourish. But when other countries try to encode similar copyright exceptions into law, the US government frowns on the practice, saying it "sends the wrong message."
We know this thanks to WikiLeaks, which has released a set of cables including US embassy reports on various intellectual property questions around the world. Back in 2005, the US embassy in New Zealand reported on the New Zealand government's plan to overhaul its 1994 Copyright Act. One part of that overhaul, which would have made copyright stronger—well, tougher—was an explicit recognition that format-shifting and time-shifting would be allowed.
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