[IP] more on Summerized -- Mossberg: Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers' Activities
Begin forwarded message:
From: TClaburn@xxxxxxx
Date: October 20, 2005 11:10:25 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Summerized -- Mossberg: Media Companies Go Too Far
in Curbing Consumers' Activities
I agree wholeheartedly with Walter Mossberg, though I believe he
misses the mark
on this point:
"I believe Congress should rewrite the copyright laws to carve out a
broad
exemption for personal, noncommercial use by consumers, including
sharing small
numbers of copies among families."
While it would be helpful to have fair use codified, consumers
already have
these rights in theory. But they cannot exercise them because of
technical
protection methods/digital rights management.
If the law is to be of assistance here, it needs to limit DRM. And
that's not
likely to happen until Congress revisits the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act,
which prohibits the circumvention of DRM technology. As Lawrence
Lessig has
suggested, code is law.
Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
http://www.lot49.com
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