[fc-uk-discuss] APIG inquiry into DRM

[MJ Ray]

Richard Clayton <richard at highwayman.com>

> Evidence by 21 Dec ...   and the inquiry is prepared to look at issues
> such as if any legal changes are needed to improve the way that Creative
> Commons style licenses work as well as DRM issues per se...

Thanks for the notice. The details are now on www.apig.org.uk
I'm considering including requests for:

 1. establishment of "fair circumvention" when DRM is being used
    to restrict what should be fair dealing or other vital acts
    - you can't make DRM systems "fail safe" but you can give some
    hope of recovering after they "fail closed";

 2. legislation to ensure that DRM system owners are held responsible
    for computer misuse (Sony?), privacy invasion and monopoly effects
    resulting from their DRM systems, which will help limit distortion;

 3. requiring collecting societies to allow members to leave, rather
    than letting us see more
<URL:http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/fc-uk-discuss/2005-November/000512.html>
reports about why some artists aren't using liberal licensing yet.

This is also getting some discussion on
<URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfe-uk>
the FSFE-UK mailing list
where some of this first appeared.

Thoughts, comments?

Thanks,
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