Re: European Directive on Copyright Law (91/EC/250) wrt open source

["Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil@vsnl.net>]

There is something in here which merits our deeper attention.

MJ Ray said on Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:35:40PM +0100,:

 > this directive's text is also available in English HTML at 
 > http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31991L0250&model=guichett

>From the above URL:-

<quote>
Article 7 Special measures of protection

1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 4, 5 and 6, Member
States shall provide, in accordance with their national legislation,
appropriate remedies against a person committing any of the acts
listed in subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) below: 

<snipped a and b, are irrelevant for now>

(c) any act of putting into circulation, or the possession for
commercial purposes of, any means the sole intended purpose of which
is to facilitate the unauthorized removal or circumvention of any
technical device which may have been applied to protect a computer
program 
<endquote>

That is the US of A's DMCA through backdoor.


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