[Upd-discuss] Google public domain library?

[Yannick Delbecque]

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On December 16, 2004 11:19 am, Michael Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Yannick Delbecque wrote:
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> > On December 16, 2004 10:16 am, Michael Hart wrote:
> >> From what I have heard, they are planning very serious DRM on all of i=
t.
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> >> Whether they claim copyright or not, they will make it illegal to "bre=
ak
> >> in" to get any public domain data other than what they give you.
> >
> > I'm not american and I do not know the details of the DMCS act, but
> > doesn't it forbid to circonvent DRM technologies applied to *copyrighte=
d*
> > works only?
>
> I'm sure there are plenty of laws against breaking in to copy ANY files,
> public domain or not.

I agree with that. And if it is not the case yet, it certainly will be soon=
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I tought that the main US law about this was the DMCA (not the "DMCS" as I=
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> Not to mention that they can always add something copyrighted or
> trademarked to the file. . . .

Yes, but maybe it is legal to break in to get acess to the public domain=20
content withtout touching the rest (you would have to be able to prove in=20
court that you didn't touch the rest...). In any case, it also depends on t=
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country: it is (yet) not fobbiden to circonvent DRM in Canada, so I would b=
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able to extract the public domain content of the files and release it as I=
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Yannick Delbecque

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