>From EFF: "Copyright warnings -- like those "FBI Warnings" on DVDs, stickers on CDs, and warnings flashed during NFL broadcasts -- are becoming increasingly common. Trouble is, most of these warnings are blatantly misleading claiming that any and all unauthorized uses are forbidden by law. Of course, copyright has always allowed lots of unauthorized uses, including fair uses. They are also annoying, and in the case of DVDs, unskippable.
Last Wednesday, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking the Commission to take a number of major corporations to task for their misleading and intimidating copyright warnings. Targets include: the NFL, Major League Baseball, DreamWorks, Morgan Creek (producers of "The Good Shepherd"), and the book publishers, Harcourt and Penguin. CCIA's also started a petition that will be sent to the FTC -- sign it here: http://defendfairuse.org/take_action.html Read the CCIA complaint: http://defendfairuse.org/ftc_complaint.html For the full post: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005385.php"; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Once again, that link is http://defendfairuse.org/take_action.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >From EFF: "* Virginia Movie Theater Throws the Book at Teenage Filmgoer Use a digital camera in a movie theater -- even for only a few seconds -- and you may be dragged from the theater, arrested, and charged with a serious criminal offense. That's what happened to Jhannet Sejas on her 19th birthday, when two police officers interrupted the showing of Transformers she was enjoying and placed her under arrest. Sejas says she had no intention of selling or distributing a pirated copy of the film. Her aim was simply to share a few seconds of the Transformers movie with her younger brother to get him excited about seeing the film. (Her camera had recorded a miniscule 20 seconds of the film when she was arrested.) Like any fan, Sejas was a paying customer who only wanted to share her enthusiasm. But apparently, the owners of the theater at Ballston Commons Mall in Virginia didn't see her that way. Read the full story here: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005389.php Take action now to fight the Justice Department's copycrime proposal: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=299"; Once again that link is http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=299 In Solidarity, Comrade Ringo Kamens _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
