[sklyarov-chicago] Protest Organization

[Michael Cannon]

DMCA refers to Digital media...books are exempted, I
believe...

also magazines and newspapers...they are already
covered by copyright and trademark statutes...the
publicized reason for the DMCA was the
'disintermediation effects' of the 'new media' like
internet and ebook technologies, that threatened the
existing legal transfer and distribution mechanisms
for IP...

Good idea, and the Newberry IS a worthwhile cause, but
this has nothing to do with the DMCA...

...the DeCSS idea DID...so would source for Dmitry's
little 'invention,' now that it's been open-sourced...

Mike
--- "Jason P ." <peleron_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think this is a a really good idea:
> 
> > 	Here's a (possibly lame) idea I had: hand out
> books.
> > 
> > 	Buy a few dozen from the quarter bin at the
> nearest used
> > bookstore, and
> > offer people one. [...]
> 
> But I wish I had read this *before* hitting the
> Newberry library booksale
> tonight... Of course, it's still on tomorrow and
> sunday, paperbacks only
> $.50. And an excellent case in point, since the
> whole "booksale to support
> the library" thing is, incredibly enough, in danger
> of being made illegal.
> 
> Yep, the more I think of it, the more this seems
> like almost the ideal way
> to make the point and concretely demonstrate the
> rights that are threatened
> by the DMCA. 
> 
> JP
> 
> 


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