#circumvention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #circumvention, aggregated by home.social.
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Copyright litigation over Anne Frank’s writings likely to impact the fate of VPNs in the EU“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although the diary and Anne Frank’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are well known, few are aware that the text has a complicated copyright history – one that could have […]
#advocateGeneral #anneFrank #circumvention #cjeu #eu #europeanCommission #foundations #geoblocks #infringement #intellectualMonopoly #litigation #netherlands #publicDomain #switzerland #vpns https://walledculture.org/copyright-litigation-over-anne-franks-writings-likely-to-impact-the-fate-of-vpns-in-the-eu/ -
How an “absolutist position” seeks to block even minor copyright exemptions, and usually succeeds
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in the US in 1998, at an early stage of the shift to a digital world, with little concern for the serious harm it would cause as everything became suffused with software. The problem is that the DMCA prevents circumvention of copyright protection measures (generally known as “digital rights management”, or DRM), even if the purpose of […]
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