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"What began as an attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the DMCA’s
terrible anticircumvention provision has now backfired. A court ruling will
limit our rights to fair use and free expression in favor of Hollywood’s
ability to lock stuff down with digital locks.
It’s not great.
I had thought we had gotten past the era when courts would deal with copyright
cases by accepting the Hollywood copyright extremist position — that without
copyright nothing at all would ever get published — as fact. But the DC Circuit
appeals court has done exactly that, in a case that wasn’t even suggesting that
copyright should go away, just that fair use should be applied to all of it.
The DC Circuit appeals court has now rejected a challenge to the DMCA’s Section
1201 (the anti-circumvention bit) based on how it suppresses First
Amendment-protected speech."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
