Advertisements on Web Pages
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Wed Aug 8 17:10:52 PDT 2001
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:06:05AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> (Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or copright
> protection. A "circumvention" of this liight crypto could be a DMCA
> violation. I would not be surprised to see this already impicated in the
> DVD cases: that 5 minute period of trailors that cannot be
> fast-forwarded past...it's probably a violation of the DMCA to build
> devices which circumvent the copyright holder's plans and intents.)
This came up in the DeCSS trial. To the judge, circumvention was
circumvention.
-Declan
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