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Re: [dvd-discuss] The Consumer Technology Bill of Rights



Copyright has not always been about copying.

If anyone is interested, I've co-authored a paper entitled "Taking the Copy
out of Copyright"

I don't want to spam the list with the 48K pdf.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org>
To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] The Consumer Technology Bill of Rights


> Historically, the right to make copies was limited by technology and so
> the costs were high. The devils bargain was to provide the incentive for
> those fixed costs so that knowledge could be more widely dissemnatate.
> Today, the ability to copy is much less. That devils' bargain should be
> reexamined. Copyright is no longer the right to prevent copying by the
> holder but the right of the consumer to create copy.
>
> (BTW has anyone noticed that woodworking books don't have drawings or blue
> prints anymore but pictures? The cost of doing an illustration is much
> more than taking a picture. Not so 30yrs ago.
>
>
>
>
> "Ernest Miller" <ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu>
> Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> 03/18/02 06:28 AM
> Please respond to dvd-discuss
>
>
>         To:     <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: [dvd-discuss] The Consumer Technology Bill of
Rights
>
>
> I think the proper approach is to remove the exclusive right to make
> copies
> from the list of rights held by the copyright owner and to increase
> reliance
> on the distribution, display, etc. rights.
>
> Some might say that this is a practical impossibility, but the opposition
> to
> this will be no greater than the opposition to this "Bill of Rights" which
> would essentially eliminate DRM.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Sanchez" <DSanchez@fcci-group.com>
> To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:18 AM
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] The Consumer Technology Bill of Rights
>
>
> > Bob Thompson's site, http://www.ttgnet.com/rbt/rbtdaynotes.html , has a
> link to a site, http://www.digitalconsumer.org , that is promoting a 'Bill
> of Rights' for consumers.
> >
> > I know nothing about the site aside from what I've read on the it.
> However, I think that the premise behind it has merit, but I would like to
> see something similar to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the
> Constitution
> added to it.  Maybe something along the lines of "Enumeration in this Bill
> of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
> retained by the user.  The Rights not specifically delegated to the
> Copyright Holder are reserved to the user."  And maybe replace 'user' with
> 'People' to reflect the fact that we hold these rights as citizens not
> just
> consumers.,
> >
> > I know that we had discussed in the past the problems related to
> enumerating the rights conferred through 'fair use' and 'first sale'.
> Primarily, the fact that the process of sayings 'these are the right'
> would
> eliminate any right to new uses.  However, I think that we have reached a
> point where, because no rights have be enumerated, the traditional  'fair
> use' and 'first sale' rights have eroded to such an extent that we no
> longer
> have them anyway.  As for adding any new ones, that possibility no longer
> exists.
>
>
>