Re: It's not like we WANT copyright technical protection measures--it's the law!

[Andy Oram <andyo@oreilly.com>]

Thanks for all the replies; it tells me some interesting things about the
history of IP. Krishna and Michael, may I forward your replies to the other
lists (CPSR-hosted) I posted my message to?

The reference to the DMCA surprised me. It proves that I'll never know the
whole law no matter how much I study the big mother. I just reread Sections
402 and 405 on "ephemeral recordings," where I'd expect the requirement to
be located, and couldn't find a hint of it. Is it real?

I'm even more interested in what I learned about the Audio Home Recording
Act. I've seen occasional references to it, but I don't think the Internet
public-interest folks discuss it with the intensity they've talked about
the DMCA and other clearly digital laws. So I was ignorant of it. But the
part quoted by Prof. Davis shows that it offers some obvious precedents for
the issues being debated in the digital world (like technical measures).

Andy