Re: [dvd-discuss] Re: [dvd-discuss digest] V #12

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GOod comments. COnsider submitting them to the senate judiciary.

Subject:        	[dvd-discuss] Re: [dvd-discuss digest] V #12
Date sent:      	Sat, 16 Mar 02 00:15:42 -0600
From:           	Zimran Ahmed <zahmed@gsb.uchicago.edu>
To:             	<dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
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> >I'd forgotten that.....*&%$#@ed!! merger mania. THAT may be the whole 
> >question 
> >of the meeting. WHere does AOL come out in the matter?
> 
> AOL actually doesn't know. They're having similar internal issues with 
> spinner. AOL, like Sony, is ambivelent about all of this.
> 
> You can also make the case that any built-in DRM must support public 
> domain or copyleft goods. So it must allow the existence of goods that 
> can be tampered with in any way. Moreover, there must be a way for 
> copyrighted products to fall into public domain. And it must protect fair 
> use of copyrighted goods. So, if I buy a text under copyright, any DRM 
> system should let me have fair use of it, and when it's copyright 
> expires, the content should automatically have all DRM removed.
> 
> Once you include public domain (and copyleft) as legitimate DRM 
> categories, and start defining what "fair use" is, the system become even 
> more untenable.
> 
> Zimran 
>