RE: [dvd-discuss] did everyone already see this?

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I'm sorry ... when I push the button on the garage
door the program gets downloaded to a screen on
the opener? 

Uh, uh.  The code does not provide access to the
program _as_content_.

Strictly speaking, the code does not provide access
to the program _at_all_.  The code is _managed_ by
the program.  The code triggers a certain function
performed by the program.  The code does _not_ in
any meaningful way provide _access_ to the program.

I'll take a look at that debate thread you
provided and post this there as well.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernest Miller [mailto:ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] did everyone already see this?
> 
> 
> The copyrighted content in this case was the code the operated the 
> garage door opener.  I've been engaged in some debate on the 
> issue here:
> http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=ar
> ticle&sid=1187
> 
> Richard Hartman wrote:
> 
> >btw: to qualify for DMCA the TPM must be protecting some 
> copyrightable content.  AFAICT the garage doors were 
> protecting cars, not content.  Why wasn't the claim dismissed 
> as inapplicable?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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