DRM Alert!
January 14th, 2008 by Maddog
http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?p=108
Has Digital Restrictions Management (DRM, also deceptively called Digital
"Rights" Management by its proponents) found an ally in the Philippines?
Philippine Senator Edgafrdo Angara has filed senate Bill 880, entitled "AN
ACT AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8293 OR THE 'THE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES' AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"
(the bill's short title: "AMENDING R.A. NO. 8293, TO INCLUDE INTERNET
PIRACY"). For the most part, the bill mandates minor changes to existing
laws on copyright enforcement, fair use, personal importation of
copyrighted works, registration of copyright, copyright infringement, and
related procedural matters.
Bill 880, however, also introduces new concepts and a new chapter,
numbered XXI, which gives legal protection to DRM measures and prohibits
means to circumvent them. Although I'm not a lawyer, DRM seems to be
effectively included in the bill with the following definitions stated at
the beginning of Bill 880:
171.12 "EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURE" MEANS ANY TECHNOLOGY,
DEVICE OR COMPONENT THAT, IN THE NORMAL COURSE OF ITS OPERATION,
CONTROLS ACCESS TO A PROTECTED WORK, SOUND RECORDING, OR OTHER
SUBJECT MATTER, OR PROTECTS ANY COPYRIGHT OR ANY RIGHTS RELATED
TO COPYRIGHT AS PROVIDED BY THIS ACT.
171.13 "RIGHTS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION" MEANS INFORMATION WHICH
IDENTIFIES THE WORK, SOUND RECORDING OR PERFORMANCE; THE AUTHOR
OF THE WORK, PRODUCER OF THE SOUND RECORDING OR PERFORMER OF
THE PERFORMANCE; THE OWNER OF ANY RIGHT IN THE WORK, SOUND
RECORDING OR PERFORMANCE; OR INFORMATION ABOUT THE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF THE USE OF THE WORK, SOUND RECORDING OR
PERFORMANCE; AND ANY NUMBERS OR CODES THAT REPRESENT SUCH
INFORMATION, WHEN ANY OF THESE ITEMS IS ATTACHED TO A COPY OF
THE SOUND RECORDING OR FIXATION OF WORK, PERFORMANCE OR APPEARS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNICATION TO THE PUBLIC OF A WORK,
SOUND RECORDING OR PERFORMANCE. NOTHING IN THIS ACT REQUIRES
THE OWNER OF ANY R IGHT IN THE WORK, SOUND RECORDING, OR
PERFORMANCE TO ATTACH RIGHTS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TO COPIES
OF IT OR TO CAUSE RIGHTS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TO APPEAR IN
CONNECTION WITH A COMMUNICATION OF THE WORK, SOUND RECORDING OR
PERFORMANCE TO THE PUBLIC.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?p=108
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