#digitallocks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitallocks, aggregated by home.social.
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Publishers delighted at failure of constitutional challenge to the #DMCA rules on digital locks https://publishers.org/news/dc-circuit-court-rejects-effs-challenge-to-dmca-confirms-symbiotic-relationship-of-copyright-law-and-free-expression/ #copyright #freespeech #digitallocks #DMCA The Electronic Frontier Foundation is downcast at the verdict https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-rules-fair-use-may-be-narrowed-serve-hollywood-profits
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A rare copyright win for the public – but a small one, only in Canada, and possibly temporary
It is extraordinary that within the copyright world it is accepted dogma that legal protections for this intellectual monopoly should always get stronger – creating a kind of copyright ratchet. One of the manifestations of this belief was the WIPO Copyright Treaty, signed in 1996, which extended copyright in important ways. A key element was the prohibition of any […]
#antiCircumvention #canada #digitalLocks #dmca #DRM #eu #fairDealing #fairUse #informationSocietyDirective #michaelGeist #wipo
https://walledculture.org/a-rare-copyright-win-for-the-public-but-a-small-one-only-in-canada-and-possibly-temporary/
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'The Federal Court of Canada has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair dealing. Rather, the two must co-exist in harmony, leading to an interpretation that users can still rely on fair dealing even in cases involving those digital locks.' https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/06/huge-win-for-copyright-user-rights-in-canada-federal-court-rules-digital-lock-rules-do-not-trump-fair-dealing/ #copyright #digitallocks #TPMs #fairdealing @mgeist
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Technological protection measures - DC Circuit Evades Important Questions in Disappointing Ruling on Section 1201 of the DMCA https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/dc-circuit-evades-important-questions-disappointing-ruling-section-1201-dmca via @eff #copyright #TPMs #digitallocks