In the first trial of its kind in the United States, a federal jury in Los Angeles recently convicted a retired painter of illegally bringing a camcorder into a movie theater to record "The Legend of Zorro." The jury's decision against Manuel Sandoval was the first brought under the U.S. Family and Entertainment Copyright Act. The year-old law makes it a crime to upload a copyrighted work onto the Internet, and makes it a felony, not just a misdemeanor, to copy a movie in a theater using a camcorder.

Originally by Law.com - Tech Law Practice Center, 10:56 AM

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