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IP: Re: Digital TV, copy control and public po9licy
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 02:24:18 -0400
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 21:33:07 -0500 From: gep2 () terabites com Subject: Re: IP: Digital TV, copy control and public po9licy To: farber () cis upenn edu X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 The other important issue that these companies fail to address is the mechanism by which their copyright (and restrictions on copies) needs to expire at the end of the term of the copyright... at which point the programming in question enters the public domain. A great many of the books in libraries are old enough that they don't have copyright protection anymore (and indeed, some of those books haven't had copyright protection in HUNDREDS of years) and in many cases the original author (and publisher!) are long gone. Had the sole copy control been left in their hands, who is to "turn off" the copy protection after the "holder of the key" doesn't exist anymore? Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/ Support the Anti-SPAM Amendment! Join at http://www.cauce.org/ 12/19/98: Partisan Republicans scornfully ignore the voters they "represent". 12/09/00: the date the Republican Party took down democracy in America.
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