Tim asked: > Does anyone else who is unable to make it have any particular axes to > grind, or queries they'd like to make of any of the panel? Let me know
I'd suggest asking about fair circumvention - a blanket refusal to make criminals of people who aren't violating old-fashioned copyright, but are breaking the new DRM laws. Sadly, our badly-thought-out DRM laws can make stripping DRM from a public domain work a breach of copyright law. Libraries are among the many groups that this hinders, so I'd hope it would play well there. So, my main question would be: should fair circumvention be written into law to assist private study, commentary, news reporting, libraries and so on, or is it right for DRM laws to create new forms of copyright offence hindering use of works in the public domain? A second question could be: should abusive operators of DRM systems be liable for massive computer misuse? (Sony-BMG) Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
