Word: copyright
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...arrest has sparked a firestorm of controversy over the as-yet-untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--and over how far law enforcement should go to protect intellectual property like e-books. The case has provoked the first big showdown between two camps: the programmers who want to bypass security restrictions and the publishers who want to protect the words they sell...
...talking about Fort Knox here. Some of these codes could be cracked by a computer-savvy seven-year-old. That's okay, though, because Big Publishing has the might of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act behind it. This beauty of a pro-business statute - which also comforts the comfortable in the music and movie industries - makes it not only an offense to circumvent any security surrounding copyrighted material, but even to invent any tools that circumvent such security. This is a little like prosecuting Xerox for coming up with the photocopier. Your Honor, someone might use that thing to copy...
...shouldn?t be aimed at libraries, says Miriam Nisbet, the legal counsel for the American Library Association (ALA). The ease with which materials can be duplicated, she says, is a legitimate concern for the publishers. But "from our standpoint, librarians are the most conscientious people in the world about copyright and adhering to it and making sure their patrons know what they can and cannot...
...People are feeling unsettled because they?re not sure how the rules apply," she adds. In fact, when Congress passed the Digital Copyright Act in 1998 they shot this particular issue back to the Copyright Office, which was supposed to release a study on the subject last fall. The library and publishing communities are still waiting (with bated breath, according to Adler) for that report to help clear things...
...sides circle each other warily, each is awaiting guidance from that long-delayed Copyright Office study. Meanwhile, library users can only hope that nobody pulls the plug on their books...