On 7/13/07, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What has happened is some jerkwater organization has sent around a > > threatening legal looking letter. ...
> That jerkwater organization would be your federal government. > The DMCA pute the onus on the lab operator to ensure there is no violations. > ... > ... -(1) No person shall manufacture, import, > offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, > product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that- > "(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of > circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that > effectively protects a right of a copyright owner ... That ONLY covers circumventing technical protection measures. If, for example, a customer brings in a DVD and wants a still print of his favorite scene, the DMCA makes it illegal for the lab to crack the DVD's encryption to make the print. It also makes it illegal to sell him the tools to crack it himself. It may even make it illegal for me to post this link to academic discussions: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/ Whether those legal provisions should exist is a whole other question. I'd say obviously not; the criminals here are the movie companies with their region codes and other restrictions on fair use. However, this is not the place for that argument. My point here is that that part of the DMCA says nothing at all about just printing a file the customer brings in. A lab may indeed have some obligation to be reasonably certain they are not helping people violate copyright, but the section of the DMCA you quote has nothing to do with that. -- Sandy Harris Quanzhou, Fujian, China -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
