[Patents] New E.U directive about protection of copyright?

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

yes

it does make DeCSS illegal (it was legal).

which means that owners of content may decide which platform can access
the content.
   This is anti-competitive ... and there is not even the resource of
compulsory licensing as with patents.

  In effect, this new regulation is more like patenting than like
copyright, since it forbids any unauthorized use of a given
technology, and there is not even an obligation (as in patents) to
make that technology public.

Bernard

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:57:05AM +0200, Renaud Dans wrote:
> 
> A friend just sent me this link and underlined this paragraph.
> 
> http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/intprop/news/copyright.htm
> 
> A noter :
> 
>    Firstly, rightholders have complete control over the manufacture,
>    distribution etc. of devices designed to circumvent anti-copying
>    devices. A more flexible solution in this regard would have carried a
>    greater risk of abuse and piracy.
> 
> Cela semble signifier, en clair, que la MPAA (détenteur des droits sur le 
> CSS)
> disposer de tout contrôle sur la distribution de lecteurs dvd qui incluent 
> le
> décryptage CSS.
> 
> I do my best to translate it...
> 
> Does it mean, in clear, that the MPAA (who have the right on the CSS)
> have a full control of the distribution of dvd that contain the
> uncyper system CSS.
> 
> Cela semble mettre sérieusement en péril toute tentative d'écrire un lecteur
> DVD sous GPL (comme xine).
> 
> That should stop every try to write a reader of DVD under GPL (like xine).
> 
> 
> 
> What do you think about it?
> Is it a correct interpretation?
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Dans Renaud. (renodan@bigfoot.com)
> 
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