Comments on: Taking forward Gowers: Copyright Exceptions

By: infodo

infodo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:02:10 +0000

Uncertain if it really is my internet browser because of I yet got zero free time to upgrading and i’m continue utilising InternetExplorer 6 but while taking a look at your web page I actually noticed some type of strange characters everywhere in the page, in case it’s actually critical I just simply assumed I’d inform you about. It says this along with many additional things just after it, such as Caution: Cannot modify header information … and the like. That is a bit abnormal simply because for me my own internet page remortgage with popular sort just like, bing and google do appear with out issues. Apologies, english is simply not my mother language.

By: Balashka

Balashka — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:11:27 +0000

Да уж. Иногда такое бывает, что хоть стой хоть падай.

By: чeлoвeк2мaн

чeлoвeк2мaн — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:56:03 +0000

Интересно. Думаю многие будут не согласны..

By: Феликс

Феликс — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:46:09 +0000

Мне вот интересно, а есть кто-то, кто не совсем согласен с автором ? :)

By: Alex Lambert

Alex Lambert — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:13:08 +0000

Some format shifts are harder than others. For example, would transcribing an audio presentation or pdf into text as is done regularly on Groklaw and ORG be classed as a format shift? Would it be protected? Should a group be allowed to collaborate on doing such a task?

It’s possibly less of an issue because the reasons for doing this style of format shifting is to help others who can’t access the original and so fail the personal use part.

By: Stuart Langridge

Stuart Langridge — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:18:18 +0000

Realistically, it’s not possible to prevent such onward communication. We can’t make the argument that DRM doesn’t work (because all music ends up on P2P networks anyway, because every break is a class break) and also dangle the possibility of “preventing onward communication” from a legitimate copier to a non-legitimate recipient. Those making these decisions need to be clear that preventing copying doesn’t work, and make those decisions in light of this knowledge, I think.

By: Stuart Langridge

Stuart Langridge — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:15:31 +0000

The common phrasing here (if you’re horribly pretentious) is “Abusus non tollit usum”, which means “The threat of potential abuse should not be an argument against any use”.

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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:56:28 +0000

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By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:12:25 +0000

Circumvention of DRM technologies, and the sale and distribution of tools to enable such circumvention, should be permitted in all instances where the outcome of the circumvention is legal, even if there are substantial illegal uses for the same circumvention method. For example, it should be legal to circumvent CSS protection on a DVD which has region coding set, or has unskippable content, since watching a DVD in another region or skipping content you don’t wish to view are otherwise legal. The fact that this circumvention would also allow illegal copies to be made should not be a factor, especially in my example where it is within the control of the DVD producers to choose not to use region coding or unskippable content.

By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:07:52 +0000

Where the copy is held in a digital format, the library, archive, museum or gallery should be required to make it freely available for download at no cost as soon as the copyright period on the original has expired. It is clearly a weakness of the current copyright laws that museums and galleries can exploit their physical control over works to prevent high quality copies of out-of-copyright works from being available in the public domain.