Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:45:25 -0500 |
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:30:30 +0100, Helge Hafting said:
> This can't legally happen. Do the DMCA prevent "circumventing" > even when you have the legal right to make copies of the content?
As a matter of fact, yes. See 17 USC 1201 and Skylarov v. Adobe - the fact that a user may have totally legitimate fair-use access to the protected content is *not* an exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause.
> (If so, then the music industry breaks DMCA when manufacturing > their protected CDs from a protected master . . .)
Oohh.. an interesting point.. ;) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |