From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932542AbWBDSWO (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:22:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932543AbWBDSWO (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:22:14 -0500 Received: from h80ad2553.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.83]:29856 "EHLO h80ad2553.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932542AbWBDSWO (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:22:14 -0500 Message-Id: <200602041745.k14HjPnx015331@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Helge Hafting Cc: =?UTF-8?B?RW1pbGlvIEplc8O6cyBHYWxsZWdvIEFyaWFz?= , Linus Torvalds , Karim Yaghmour , Filip Brcic , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Thomas Horsten , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:30:30 +0100." <43E1DF46.5020803@aitel.hist.no> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <43DE57C4.5010707@opersys.com> <5d6222a80601301143q3b527effq526482837e04ee5a@mail.gmail.com> <200601302301.04582.brcha@users.sourceforge.net> <43E0E282.1000908@opersys.com> <43E1C55A.7090801@drzeus.cx> <87mzha85sc.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <43E1DF46.5020803@aitel.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1139075125_2924P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:45:25 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1139075125_2924P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:30:30 +0100, Helge Hafting said: > This can't legally happen. Do the DMCA prevent =22circumventing=22 > even when you have the legal right to make copies of the content? As a matter of fact, yes. See 17 USC 1201 and Skylarov v. Adobe - the fa= ct that a user may have totally legitimate fair-use access to the protected content is *not* an exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. > (If so, then the music industry breaks DMCA when manufacturing > their protected CDs from a protected master . . .) Oohh.. an interesting point.. ;) --==_Exmh_1139075125_2924P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFD5Og1cC3lWbTT17ARAkYpAJ0ZonviSyaELqi39hHHM/tE3zWxtQCgj4hY 9qnTCdPxNCYWSItCa7hHKik= =qXpx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1139075125_2924P--