Can I use a video stabiliser to copy a movie on VHS tape onto DVD?
It is OK to use a video stabiliser to remove the copyright protection from a VHS tape. However, you must also make sure that you are also allowed to format shift the film from VHS to DVD. A video stabiliser removes the spikes created by Macrovision (see above at ‘Can I copy a movie from a VHS tape?’) which is a copy control technology and not an access control technology, so using it when making a copy of a VHS tape movie is not a circumvention of an access control technology and is permitted. WARNING: Schools/TAFEs are only allowed to copy a whole movie from VHS to DVD (format shifting) if the copying is for the purposes of educational instruction and where it is not possible to buy a copy of the film on DVD. So if you can buy a film in DVD format of the VHS tape version of the film you want to copy (eg, if your school has a VHS copy of The Man from Snowy River and you can buy a DVD version of that film), you are not allowed to make a format shift copy. For further information on form
