Space Shifting (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Space shifting, also known as format shifting, is a concept that has been argued in copyright law to permit owners of some form of media, such as a song or movie, to convert that media from one format to another, generally by converting an audiotape, videotape, compact disc, or DVD into an electronic file stored on a computer. The term is argued as an analogy to the time shifting argument that succeeded in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), in which the United States Supreme Court held that the sale of VCRs did not contribute to copyright infringement because taping a televised event to watch at a later time was not an infringing activity.