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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5176841" data-attributes="member: 19675">No.The problem you just encountered is that a lot of companies that deal with the public sale or reproduction of intellectual properties have a workforce that is 99% composed of people who don't understand copyright law.Because of this, their leadership typically seeks out the advice of attorneys who, finding that the leadership can't understand the (really pretty clear) rules about what is and what isn't a violation, then resort to blanket statements of "Just don't do X and you'll never have an issue."  Which is the message that the rank and file get.There is a valid concern for places like Best Buy that someone may buy, open, copy and try to return a DVD or the like, and they fear a lawsuit because of it.  However, since the same person could just as easily sell the open DVD to someplace like Half-Price books*, I'd say they're overreacting to the threat.  Still, that fear has shaped their policies: you generally can't return open material for anything except for replacement of the same.What they don't realize is that the law protecting things like DVDs and the law protecting books is essentially the same- electronic media just have additional protections due to their ease of reproduction- so anything you could legally do with a book you could do with a DVD.But even if you can return a book to your store, odds are high that they have that no open returns policy about DVDs.  Don't try to argue the law with them, they won't understand.I ran into this kind of thing while trying to get color photocopies of the text on a CD that showed its new, huge, unmissable FBI warning for an academic presentation on piracy, and was told that this would violate Copyright law.  Despite flashing my Bar card and telling them that this was 1) academic fair use according to the law, and 2) I wasn't copying the songs, just the label, they wouldn't budge.Just sigh, shake your head and walk away from it, man.* Who, BTW, won't take unopened material because they fear its been shoplifted.</blockquote>

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