IP: Re: Digital TV, copy control and public po9licy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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
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>
> 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?
>
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