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Court Rejects Attempt to Expand the DMCA
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| Yesterday, a district court dismissed several claims in the case Coupons,
| Inc. v. Stottlemire, in which we had, in March, filed an amicus brief.
| Coupons offers online coupons that consumers can access and print using
| software provided by Coupons.
|
| [...]
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| This is because controlling use of copyrighted material is already addressed
| by copyright law, and addressing it again in the DMCA would upset the careful
| balance between the rights of copyright owners and those of the public. As
| the court properly understood, maintaining a clear distinction between
| access-control claims and rights-control claims "leaves room for individual
| fair uses, adaptations for the blind, library research, and the other
| statutory exceptions to copyright."
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-rejects-attempt-to-expand-the-dmca
Recent:
Fight the Canadian DMCA!
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| On Wednesday, Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced a bill that
| BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow described as making it "flatly illegal to break
| any kind of digital lock, or to violate terms in one of those absurd end-user
| license agreements that make you promise to agree to let the record industry
| kick your teeth in and drink all your beer, just for the dubious privilege of
| paying for a song at iTunes or watching a video on Viacom's website.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/fight-the-canadian-dmca
RIAA Hopes New Judge will Nab Sharers
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| Rather that directing the lawsuit at the same defendants as before, the RIAA
| directed it at John Doe (a defendant to be identified later), therefore
| obtaining a new judge ... who may not be so strict about the "making
| available" clauses.
|
| Nice move, RIAA.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007114.html
Canada Warming Up Its Own DMCA
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| Bill C-61 is essentially a series of amendments to the Copyright Act that
| would ratify the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright
| Treaty, which the DMCA did for the USA in 1996.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007113.html
Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
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| The Hill Times this week includes an astonishingly misleading and factually
| incorrect article on Canadian copyright written by Microsoft.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2670/125/
Canada moots tough sanctions for DRM flouters
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| The Canadian government today unveiled a controversial proposal to update the
| country's copyright laws.
|
| [...]
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| It's a somewhat confusing solution that government officials behind the bill
| call a "balanced approach to truly benefit Canadians".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/canada_copyright_reform_june_2008/
Red Hat founder speaks against Canada's copyright reform
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| Lulu Inc. CEO Bob Young is a major voice in the open source software
| industry, but according to him the entire community has been unjustifiably
| ignored throughout the Canadian government's copyright reform initiatives.
|
| Last year, the Conservative government vowed to adopt copyright laws which
| would make it illegal to modify or remove any device or software fitted with
| a technical protection measures (TPMs). After months of hearsay and numerous
| delays, the buzz on Parliament Hill now suggests a proposed copyright bill
| from Industry Minister Jim Prentice is imminent.
|
| In the wake of these rumors -- which many industry activists have begun
| referring to as the Canadian version of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright
| Act (DMCA) -- a new open source software alliance has added their name to the
| lengthy list of opposition to the Industry Minister's soon-to-be-unveiled
| legislation.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/06/red-hat-founder-speaks-against-canadas-copyright-reform
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