RE: [dvd-discuss] Draft of upcoming article

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

It might be nice to add on a section that covers the
remedy suggested time and time again.  To "fix" the
DMCA (or at least a 90% fix) would require the addition
of five words: "for purposes of copyright infringement".

That is "No person shall circumvent a technological measure"
should be "No person shall circumvent a technological measure
for purposes of copyright infringement".

That, and the "trafficking" sections ... after all, if you
can legitimately bypass a technological measure for fair 
use purposes, then the tools used to accomplish this must
be available.

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

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Oram [mailto:andyo@oreilly.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:03 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@lweb.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] Draft of upcoming article
> 
> 
> Since I haven't been on this list very long, it may seem
> presumptuous to post something for review. However, I got a
> bit of help beforehand and have been following copyright
> issues for a long time. If you have time, please take a look
> at this article (which doesn't reflect the past 24 hours'
> worth of news):
> 
>     http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/professional/ruling_2600.html
> 
> I will probably publish it either in Web Review
> (http://webreview.com/) or O'Reilly Network
> (http://www.oreillynet.com/), but not for several
> weeks. There's plenty of time for corrections.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andy Oram  O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.        email: andyo@oreilly.com
> Editor     90 Sherman Street                       voice: 617-499-7479
>            Cambridge, MA 02140-3233                  fax: 617-661-1116
>            USA                          http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/
> Stories at Web site:
> The Bug in the Seven Modules     Code the Obscure     The Disconnected
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>