Friday, January 20, 2006

GPL 3 to Take Hard Line on DRM. GPL 3 to Take Hard Line on DRM.  sebFlyte writes  "ZDNet is reporting that Eben Moglen, the FSF's lead lawyer and the co-authour of GPL3, has explained that DRM is 'fundamentally incompatible' with the aims of the FSF and will be given short shrift in the latest version of the free software licence, which bans the use of 'digital restrictions' in GPL3 governed software. In his words: 'I recognise that that's a highly aggressive position, but it's not an aggression which we thought up. It's a defence related to an aggression which was launched against the people whose rights are our primary concern... We don't want our software used in a way which batters the head of the user to please somebody else. Our goal is the protection of users' rights, not movies' rights.'"  We discussed the new GPL on Monday. [Slashdot: Your Rights Online] 11:09:00 AM

DMCA Reply Comments: The Cell Phone Locking Exemption. DMCA Reply Comments: The Cell Phone Locking Exemption. In the previous post, we noted the approaching deadline for filing reply comments in the Copyright Office's DMCA rulemaking proceeding and summarized the proposed exemption submitted by Ed Felten and J. Alex Halderman. This post highlights another key first round comment, one submitted by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Cyberlaw Clinic on behalf of the Wireless Alliance and Robert Pinkerton. [EFF: Deep Links] 9:55:09 AM

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