After Lessig’s hearing at the Supreme Court, here’s the next step towards rationality on copyrights. The US Copyright Office is asking for public opinion on what could be considered an exception to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. via Scripting News
Get an idea of how much trouble copyright is generating for Google. via LinuxJournal
Now the UK wants a DMCA-like law.
Maybe the DMCA is not as Draconian as we thought.
Here’s the current status on Google vs Church of Scientology.
A truly inspired way of describing DeCSS: DeCSS haikus. (I hope linking to it is not illegal.)
Linking to illegal sites is illegal. But if you just type the URL like http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ that’s fine.
Oops. DeCSS lost the case. Welcome to the world of strong copyright protection.
Preliminary indications are good. DeCSS is legal (so far.)
The SSSCA bill appears even worse than the DMCA.
Anti DMCA is against the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.