HDCP break and DMCA

[Sampo Syreeni]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Tim May wrote:

>> Really? Sounds to me like they fall under "Fair Use." That provision
>> specifically exempts copying for research or education.
>
>I strongly doubt this. "Fair use" is not about setting up alternate
>publishing schemes, but is about quoting relevant sections, collecting
>material for research purposes, etc.

Aye. Quite a number of people seem to have this strange intuition that
"research and education" are somehow different from "commercial" use,
making them "fairer". It's naturally true that the preconditions of the
fair use exception are more often fulfilled in the context of research,
but that's about it. Were that not the case, people who make textbooks
would not be very well off.

I'd guess it's basically the same thing that makes people advocate public
schooling -- not too long ago I too thought education was a "basic need"
which needed to be socialized.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy at iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
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