Is it illegal to save a movie on a TV channel to DVD and keep it for personal use?

Question

and maybe print off a cover and put it in a sleeve?

Answer 1

It is not illegal to record to DVD and use it only in a your private premises. Printing off a cover and sleeve could also be OK for your personal use. The illegality would come if you ever sold it or played it in a non-private setting.

Answer 2

nope

Answer 3

No, it is *not* illegal.

The US Supreme Court in the case SONY CORP v. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, INC., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) decided that, although this act does infringe upon copyright, it is ALLOWED under the fair use principal as long as the recording is used ONLY for private, non-redistributed viewing, archival, or time-shifting.

It is illegal to redistribute the copy to someone else, though anyone can watch it with you in a private setting (i.e. your home).

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

If no marketing is involved, you are OK for personnel use.

Answer 6

I believe in the UK you can keep a recording for 28 days for personal use only. (ie you and friends can watch it, but you could not show it in a public place.

Answer 7

no it is not legal but no one is going to come and bust down your door for it either

Answer 8

Legal - recording onto erasable media (e.g. DVD-RW, computer hard drive, mp4 player, DVD recorder HDD, etc.)

Illegal - recording onto any permanent media (e.g. DVD-R, DVD+R).

This applies to any film, even ones you own.

It is legal to make a single copy of a computer / console game for backup purposes, however.

Despite the quite remarkable ignorance shown in many answers here, this has actually been the law in Great Britain and Europe since October 2001.