This is old news, but I finally got around to
reading it through, and came upon this interesting quote:
Even worse for the EFF was the court's flat rejection of another
argument...: By locking up digital content behind copy protection
devices, Hollywood had trampled on the right to make "fair use"
of that material. "A film critic making fair use of a
movie by quoting selected lines of dialog has no constitutionally valid
claim that the review (in print or on television) would be
technologically superior if the reviewer had not been prevented from
using a movie camera in the theater," said the panel. "Nor has
an art student a valid constitutional claim to fair use of a painting by
photographing it in a museum."
The full story:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48726,00.html
Nov. 29, 2001
WASHINGTON -- If there was a scorecard for
copyright lawsuits, this week it would look like this: entertainment
industry 2, free speech zip.
On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts siding with the music and
record industry, the
Electronic Frontier
Foundation lost two of its most important
intellectual property cases so far.
Programmers, hackers and open-source aficionados had pinned their hopes
on these lawsuits as a way to eviscerate the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, a 1998 federal law loved by the entertainment and software
industries almost as much as it's hated by computer
professionals...
Amalyah Keshet
Director of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
www.imj.org.il
Board of Directors, the Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
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