Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
On 5/19/14, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>> On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
>>>>> If the copyright on something restricted by DRM were to expire, and
>>>>> the
>>>>> DRM were still effective (or if breaking it were forbidden, e.g. by
>>>>> anti-circumvention laws), then although people would be *allowed* to
>>>>> copy and redistribute it at will, they would still not be *able* to do
>>>>> so, without permission from whoever controls the DRM - which would,
>>>>> likely, be the former holder of the copyright.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's more, but that should do as a first point. Objections to DRM
>>>>> go
>>>>> far beyond just objections to copyright.
>>>>
>>>> Please show an example where that has occurred.
>>>
>>> Please show an example of a digital recording that was copyrighted 75
>>> yrs
>>> ago. It is a silly request, I know. But no less silly than yours.
>>
>> Not silly at all. But there are may of them. The works of Shakespeare,
>> among others, are much older than 75 years, and have now entered the
>> public domain. And they have been digitized.
>
> A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any)
> recording that was released _with_DRM_ for which the copyright has now
> lapsed?
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