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! Media giants start whisper campaign to kill Fair Use - Boing Boing]
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:29:33 -0700
________________________________________ From: Horacio J. Peña [horape () compendium com ar] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:12 AM To: David Farber Subject: [lflj () intrex net: BD Now! Media giants start whisper campaign to kill Fair Use - Boing Boing] For IP, if you wish. ----- Forwarded message from "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj () intrex net> ----- X-Original-To: horape () compendium com ar X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at rocinante.compendium.com.ar X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.814 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.814 tagged_above=-10 required=6.31 tests=[AWL=0.814] X-Originating-IP: [65.5.197.216] Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:43:46 -0400 From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj () intrex net> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Biodynamic Food and Farming Discussion <bdnow () envirolink org> Subject: BD Now! Media giants start whisper campaign to kill Fair Use - Boing Boing X-BeenThere: bdnow () envirolink org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 <http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/08/media-giants-start-w.html> Boing Boing - A directory of wonderful things Media giants start whisper campaign to kill Fair Use Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 8, 2008 9:30 AM | permalink William Patry, the Google lawyer who formerly worked for the US Register of Copyrights, has a blog-post in which he outs a global anti-Fair-Use "whisper campaign" orchestrated by the big entertainment companies. The big media companies are trying to convince the world's governments that the USA's statutory exceptions to copyright (embodied in Fair Use) are so broad that they violate the centuries-old Berne Convention, a widely adopted copyright treaty. Berne is extremely rigid, and what's more, it's nearly impossible to update, since any amendments to it require signatures from all the governments that have signed it since the 1800s. Further, accession to Berne is a condition of many other trade agreements, so many countries are required to adopt Berne laws. If the entertainment giants can convince the world's governments that Fair Use violates Berne, it might mean that the US will be forced by a trade court to eliminate it in favor of something far more restrictive. _______________________________________________ BDNow mailing list BDNow () envirolink org You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow delivered to: horape () compendium com ar ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Horacio J. Peña horape () compendium com ar horape () uninet edu ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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