Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
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On 05/19/2014 09:44 AM, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 20/05/14 01:26, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> If a copy were indeed required to be registered with the Copyright
>> Office, that would sharply reduce or potentially eliminate the "no
>> non-DRMed copy available to enter the public domain" objection to
>> DRM. Since that is not the case, however, that objection stands.
>
> That would be an interesting option - require any DRM'd work to be
> registered, with a non-DRM'd copy kept for the future release.
I was just thinking of a slightly more limited approach: decide that "if
the work is covered by DRM, then unless a non-DRMed copy is on file with
the central archive, anti-circumvention law does not apply".
Going farther than that, to say "if DRM is to be employed, then in order
for the work to be eligible for copyright protection, a non-DRMed copy
must be filed with the appropriate central archive", would also be
possible, and would cover cases with the other would not - but would be
considerably less likely to get adopted.
Either one would be a step back towards the original goal of copyright,
however.
- --
The Wanderer
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them.
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