Techdirt Podcast Episode 43: Why Do We Let An 86 Year Old Librarian Decide Who's Allowed To Innovate?
from the circumventing-anti-circumvention dept
One of the many strange and problematic features of modern copyright law is the DMCA anti-circumvention exception system, wherein the Librarian of Congress makes unilateral decisions about what you can and can't do with software and products that include DRM and other protections. This week we're joined by Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit and a long-time champion of the right to repair and tinker, to discuss the ins and outs of this system, and what is (or isn't) coming in the next round of exemptions.
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Filed Under: anti-circumvention, copyright, dmca, drm, kyle wiens, podcast
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Go practice being a chicken somewhere else.
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Stay stupid AC
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If the farmers never agreed to share their data with John Deere, how is what they are doing not illegal (and highly actionable!) industrial espionage?
Mike said, "it's very tough to explain the innovations you don't have yet." This brings to mind something Henry Ford once said: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Kyle says, "I'm kind of wondering if this [won't be] the last triennial review." Let's hope so! Hopefully because somewhere within the next 3 years, the DMCA will be repealed.
WRT international obligations, every time someone brings this up I always wonder, why is it that it's so easy to enter into a bad treaty, but you never hear of the country withdrawing from one?
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http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/06/ala-urges-president-obama-select-librarian-h ead-library-congress
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Age
If he's doing a bad job, criticize him on the merits.
If he's not, then his age (or anything else) is irrelevant.
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There were no 87 year olds available?
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So I guess my point is, don't expect anything overnight, which I don't think anyone really does anyways...
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ageing out
Hollywood's 'Assistant Director' program tops out at 39.
The United Nations has a mandatory retirement age of 65,
US airline pilots are still fighting mandatory retirement at 60.
My father got a 'Job' at Northrup's research center when he was 63... Northrup 'laid him off' when he turned 81.
Eilene Galloway, the woman that invented N.A.S.A. was still giving lectures on the peaceful use of space at 99 years old.
Henry Kissinger wrote the book 'Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy' in 1957 and is still the go-to man for who needs killing. like Dracula & Vlad the Impaler, Kissinger's immortal.
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You buy it, you own it
If I buy a John Deere, I own it. If I buy a Blu-ray player, I own it. If I buy Windows X, I own it (well, it depends upon who you ask.)
Once you sell a product, that reverse engineering clause should be invalid.
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