Re: [iwar] [fc:Whatever.happened.to.fair.use?]

From: Tony Bartoletti (azb@llnl.gov)
Date: 2001-11-05 15:30:31


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Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Whatever.happened.to.fair.use?]
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At 08:28 PM 11/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Whatever happened to fair use?
>In music sharing, it's the record labels vs. the consumers -- and the battle
>is just beginning

I find that this debate misses two crucial points.

1.  As an individual, it would be untenable for laws to restrict my ability 
to "create content" (make real and original music or video, use a digital 
mixer, compress the result) in a format that could be shared at will, via 
CD or net.

2.  No matter what form of format encryption is employed, there must be a 
point at which the copyright-protected content is decoded and made 
presentable to the amplification and speaker systems in order to be 
presented to the owner.  I can see no way to prevent to creation of 
technologies that could capture the stream at such a point, convert analog 
to digital if needed, and thus capture the unprotected content.

Thus, copyright protection MUST be enforced at the "abuse-point", not at 
the "enablement-point".

If anyone has a different opinion, I am all ears.

____tony____


Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov>
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900





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