Cool legal judgment
From the
Electronic Freedom Foundation:
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos � people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities.
"By granting all of EFF's applications, the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress have taken three important steps today to mitigate some of the harms caused by the DMCA," said Jennifer Granick, EFF's Civil Liberties Director. "We are thrilled to have helped free jailbreakers, unlockers and vidders from this law's overbroad reach."
Awesome! For the phone jailbreak -- many of the new technologies are priced a lot higher than they should be. Jailbreaking allows competition to enter the marketplace in that Company 'B' can now offer a better product for less and benefit from the Company 'A' customer base.
Fair Use is a biggie as well -- this is just for video remixing, it will be nice when bloggers get the same for newspaper fair use quoting.
The
DCMA should never have been signed into law. Poorly conceived and overreaching legislation.
Posted by DaveH at July 26, 2010 8:19 PM