copyright story and lecture

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

I went to a lecture titled "'The Exclusive Right to their Writings':
Compensation vs Control in the Digital Age" by Professor Jane
Ginsburg of the Law School at Columbia University, more information
of which is below along with an article titled "Will Freenet smash
copyright law?" from Computer User at
http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/03/22/news11.html.

"'The Exclusive Right to their Writings:' Compensation vs Control in
the Digital Age"
 Professor Jane Ginsburg
 Law School, Columbia University

Critics assert that new copyright amendments in the US (provisions of
the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act) vest copyright owners with
a power of 'control' that is fundamentally at odds with the copyright
scheme articulated in the US Constitution and implemented through 200
years of copyright legislation. 

Professor Ginsburg contends that the Constitution embodies the
concept of author control. She acknowledges that the intervening
statutory and case law history on occasion elevated claims for
enhanced availability of works over copyright owner interests in
exercising control over new modes of exploitation. But control
remains very much part of the US copyright system; the technological
protections, further secured by legal protections, that may be
required to preserve control should also be seen as part of that
system.

See
http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcitl/conferences/conf-archive.html
for the lecture.

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Will Freenet smash copyright law?

URL: http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/03/22/news11.html

This is an age, Ian Clarke says, when copyright laws and freedom of
speech cannot coexist. One of them has to go. And, if he has anything
to
say about it, freedom of speech won't be the one.

By day, Clarke is the chief technology officer for the Santa Monica,
Calif.-based Uprizer, which Clarke describes as a non-controversial
software
maker. It's his hobby, he says, that is his true calling. It's also
what's making him famous.


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