[A2k] WIPO Meeting the Needs of the Visually Impaired Persons (July 13 in Geneva)

[Seth Johnson]

As they always say, there's always the analog hole.  The difference in
the case of palladiation is watermarking and validation against a third
party key.  That allows determining what copies are "legitimate."  It
will benefit from establishing some form of legal sanction for the third
party key, or at least for enforcement based on validation against
accepted third parties.  Furthermore, palladiation of computers allows
third party control of what you can do on your own machine, at the level
of individual processor operations.


Seth


-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>
To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, Eric Dierker
<cogitoergosum@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Claude Almansi <claude.almansi@gmail.com>, Federico Heinz
<fheinz@vialibre.org.ar>, a2k discuss list <a2k@lists.essential.org>,
Roland Perry <roland@internetpolicyagency.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:35:18 -0700
Subject: Re: [A2k] WIPO Meeting the Needs of the Visually Impaired
Persons (July  13 in Geneva)

> Seth and all,
>
>   Not to be intentful of being redundant, the technical means already
> exist that are very effective.  What remains is for those IP
> interests
> to properly and fully apply them.  I cannot honestly be sure as to
> why such has yet to occur or been taken advantage of.  I can and
> have surmised based on some evidence that the reason is multifaceted
> and verges amongst IP interests.  The main one I believe is a basic
> lack of competence and willingness to deploy such technical means.
>
> Seth Johnson wrote:
>
> > Tue, 14 Jul 2009 Claude Almansi <claude.almansi@gmail.com>:
> > > 2009/7/13 Federico Heinz <fheinz@vialibre.org.ar>:
> > > > On 13/07/2009, Claude Almansi wrote:
> > > >> However, when Federico Heinz asked him about publishers
> disabling
> > > >> text-to-speech in Kindle texts, he answered that Amazon had
> > > >> forgotten to negotiate the "audio rights".
> > > >
> > > > Later, talking with him in the lobby, I told him that was a
> lame
> > > > answer, that audio rights might have been needed if Amazon had
> > > > distributed a recording of the sound-to-speech output, but were
> not
> > > > needed in this case: if I purchase a book, I don't need audio
> right
> > > > to read it aloud to my children, and neither do I need audio
> rights
> > > > to get my computer to read it aloud to them.
> > > >
> > > > After that exchange, he admitted that publishers were fighting
> a
> > > > lost cause there, and that it was just a matter of time until
> > > > common sense sets in.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the update, Federico: even the Swiss delegate to WIPO
> said
> > > to me in the corridors during the SCCR meeting in May that
> disabling
> > > TTS in the Kindle was a lost cause.
> > >
> > > These more lucid copyright defenders are in an awkward in-between
> > > position: they can't very well tell publicly their more strident
> > > companions that thinking they can emulate the Little Dutch Boy
> and
> > > save the present copyright dam by sticking their pinkies in its
> holes
> > > is delusional. Let's hope they do so when they are among
> themselves -
> > > for the sake of access to knowledge AND of the authors' right to
> > > compensation for their work.
> >
> > If common sense prevails in the sense described, it would serve the
> > broader opposition to "DRM" as much as the interests of the
> > reading-disabled.
> >
> > But I think the tendency to keep waiting for a technical solution
> still
> > prevails, and probably better explains the motivations of the
> strident
> > "copyright defenders."  If ACTA is about enforcing palladiated
> computers
> > under the rubric of anti-counterfeiting, their hopes are still in
> play
> > and are reflecting a technically feasible scheme.
> >
> > Seth
> >
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