Re: [fairuse-discuss] Re: [DMCA-Activists] Re: DC 7/17: Tactic

[Ruben Safir]

No

We must focus on one simple message.  We are the stake holders.

THis is a political proces and not an academic one.  I'm not going to
go down to DC and fail because everyone wants to discuss another
abstraction to this problem.  That would be a failure.

We have one message - We are the ONLY stakeholders,
        We are the public....


> 
> One must question the constitutionality of DRM, in that copyright is allowed 
> only for a *LIMITED* time, and an effective DRM technology would extend 
> copyright to an *UNLIMITED* time since, once the works enter the public 
> domain, they would nevertheless remain unavailable.
> 
> I don't know if this is an argument that would bring any value to the 7/17 
> meeting, but it is certainly something to keep in mind, and might make a very 
> valid lawsuit for an injunction, should something like this ever become 
> mandated by law.
> 
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> because it's either fair use or useless....

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