DMCA philippine edition ________________ Reply Header ________________ Subject: [ce-gnu-lug] Alert!!! DRM in the Philippines? Author: Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 15th 2008 11:27 am
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 Leave a comment! -- Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. -- Pope John Paul II --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternative Information and Opinion at http://www.phnix.net Advocacy blog: http://mamador.wordpress.com Personal website: http://mannyamador.multiply.com --[Pro-Life Philippines]-------------------[http://www.prolife.org.ph]-- To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ce-gnu-lug/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ce-gnu-lug/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
