Re: [Patents] MAFIA meeting on Capitol Hill

[Coulonges Philippe <cphil@cphil.net>]

Le Mercredi 15 Mai 2002 20:12, Bernard Lang a écrit :
>
> the 1996 treaty that introduced the ideas fully exploited in DMCA,
> most notably the anti-circumvention thing.
>    In order to short-circuit congress, the idea is to have the thing
> adopted in an international treaty, so that it becomes impossible not
> to do it.

Representants of a country can't sign a treaty opposite to its constitution.
In France, our constitution recognize the Human rights declaration made in 
1789. Take a look at the 4th article and you will see that such a treaty 
can't be applicable here, specially in the light of the inviolable and sacred 
property right stated in art. 17.

The DMCA don't infringe on my property rights, as a consumer, for even if I 
own a physical copy, I don't own the property rights, but it infringe on my 
rights as a creator. Imagine I want to create a cryptographical contest, I 
set up a protection convention for the sole purpose of challenging my peers 
skills. Well, under the DMCA, they are denied the right to enter my challenge.
Why ?

>  The role of the USA - the only big fish (with the usual Japanese
> blind following) - is clear ... and they fought for that treaty before
> they ever discussed it internally.
>
>   democracy, you say  ...  what democracy ?

Constitution, you said ... which constitution ?

CU
CPHIL

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