From: Bret Indrelee<[email protected]>
Furthermore, it is illegal in the USA to extract data that has gone into the
public domain because of the DMCA. The data may be public domain, but
extracting it requires defeating a security key.
I don't think this is accurate. The section on circumvention begins:
"(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures. —
(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that
effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. "
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html#1201
Public domain data not having copyright protection, it should not be a
crime to circumvent its access controls.
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Jeff Wilson - [email protected]
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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