Digital BW, The Print

Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

>
>Congress went overboard long ago.  Current copyright protection is
>extremely restrictive and excessive.  Something more like patent and
>trademark protection might be better, with a much shorter term for
>copyright.  Nobody needs copyright protection after he is dead, for
>example.
>
>  
>

Agreed on both counts, for once Anthony..

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (while probably well-intentioned) 
has made it far worse though... What a mess.. The ridiculous, but wholly 
legally supportable,  lawsuits based on the DMCA are a bad joke...  I 
could put a bunch of links here.. But I'm sure many have already heard 
about the Lexmark / Static Control case, Diebold and voting machines,  
the SunnComm case where they threatened to sue a graduate student for 
publishing that their copy portection was defeated by holding down the 
left shift key, and Habeas Inc using the DMCA to add an anti-spam haiku 
to e-mail headers, etc..  If not, there's enough here to find them 
yourself via Google..

 
Keith Krebs

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