Re: discomforting news on the code-as-speech front

2001-05-01 Thread Sam TH
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:00:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43470,00.html There is not a decision yet, but it's looking grim. Judging things like this too early is usually a mistake. And I would suspect that Declan has gotten pretty cynical on

RE: discomforting news on the code-as-speech front

2001-05-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-May-2001 Branden Robinson wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43470,00.html There is not a decision yet, but it's looking grim. The U.S. 2nd Circuit court of appeals looks disinclined to regard compiled code as speech. They also seem to feel that fair use does not

RE: discomforting news on the code-as-speech front

2001-05-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: How can you backup the dvd in analog space? Leaving out the fact you You can't. However, fortunately the argument that fair use isn't intended to apply to technologically modern media holds no water at all and is unlikely to be accepted by

Re: discomforting news on the code-as-speech front

2001-05-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:07:32PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: How can you backup the dvd in analog space? Leaving out the fact you lose a lot of the info, macrovision won't let you. It concerns me that the judge even suggested it (or was it a lawyer). Yup, it was Judge Jon Newman,