USCO Reviewing DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause 191
ahknight writes "The United States Copyright office begins its required review of the effects of the anti-circumvention portions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act on November 2nd. This review period lasts until December 1, 2005. They will be accepting your well-thought-out opinions on the web and by mail. If you're reasonably ticked that you can't legally get around encrypted files to get at the media you've bought, start writing a coherent stance for the USCO today."
give it a few days (Score:5, Informative)
In Addition To Coherent (Score:5, Informative)
.My wife works with the USPTO on a daily bases and she suggests that in addition to writing coherently, you should also write for the lowest common denominator in their audience. In her opinion you should aim for no more than an 8th grade level.
Backups (Score:2, Informative)
Re:hopefully (Score:2, Informative)
Me, My kids and my wife are ONE household. If I buy the DVD for OUR use and wish to rip it to my PSP, I'm not breaking the law....as much as they'd like to SAY I am.
Re:hopefully (Score:2, Informative)
It only takes one good comment (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Licensing? You got hosed... (Score:3, Informative)
Your information is ten years out of date. Since DVDs are protected by CSS, and CSS is protected by the DMCA, your rights are those that don't violate copyright or CSS. Since the copy-protection can be as restrictive as it wants, the copyright holder effectively sets all your rights. First sale? Not if the DRM doesn't let you transfer it. Fair use? Everything that involves making a copy in whole or part is gone thanks to the DMCA. What's left are a few bits and pieces like news commentary. Forward through the ads? Nope. All DMCA violations. Buying a DRM-protected media is like buying something locked in a safe with a glass window. It doesn't matter what rights you have to the object inside, since you're forbidden by law to open the safe. The current legal practise is that nothing gives you the right to open that safe, for any reason. Unless the safe lets you do something, you have no rights to your own property (short of using it as a paperweight). That is why they say they are "licensing" it instead of selling it. They "license" you the rights you got left, even though in every other way it is like a sale. And the hardware will do as they say, not you.
Kjella