Follow-up on previous post: > Press Release: Internet Archive Helps Secure Exemption To The Digital > Millennium Copyright Act > http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=82097 > > "Thanks to the hard work of two great law school students of Peter Jaszi > of > American University, Jieun Kim and Doug Agopsowicz, the Internet Archive > and > other libraries may continue to preserve software and video game titles > without fear of going to jail. This is a happy moment, but on the other > hand > this exception is so limited it leaves the overall draconian nature of the > DMCA in effect. A total of more than $50,000 of pro-bono lawyer time has > been > spent to just affect this exemption and its continuation. We hope that > Congress, and other governments, will pass more balanced copyright laws to > allow at least libraries, archives, research and scholarship to flourish > without the current dark clouds of litigation."
Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net
