RE: [dvd-discuss] Patented copyright ...

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

I don't know that it is a protection mechanism in the
DMCA sense ... it is a scheme for gaining _legal_ 
protection using copyright instead of patent ... but
I suppose if the MP3 itself has a copy-protection bit
... hmmm ...

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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom [mailto:tom@lemuria.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Patented copyright ...
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:44:46AM -0700, Richard Hartman wrote:
> > Now I see a flaw here ... sure, they own the copyright
> > on the genetic "music" ... and if I play it on the radio
> > I'll owe them royalties ... but if I make a drug based
> > on the DNA sequence that has nothing to do with the encoded
> > music ... or that would be my take on this scheme.
> 
> they'd probably say you had to circumvent a protection system in order
> to find the formula for your drug...
> 
> 
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