Isn't Phillips the company that owns the patent on CDDA? And didn't they just recently (within 2-3 months) state that any form of copy protection breaks the CDDA standard?
And did they not also state that they would begin to create players that break known Audio copy protections? and that music companies could not use the CDDA logo if they had copy protection on their disks?
Damn, for a moment I thought we had a friend in the biz.
Oh well, just one more technology we'll have to break.
Won't they ever learn that they can't win?
from Article 2: Definitions...
(b) "phonogram" means the fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in a cinematographic or other audiovisual work;
(c) "fixation" means the embodiment of sounds, or of the representations thereof, from which they can be perceived, reproduced or communicated through a device;
(d) "producer of a phonogram" means the person, or the legal entity, who or which takes the initiative and has the responsibility for the first fixation of the sounds of a performance or other sounds, or the representations of sounds;
If would appear that if a musician were to make a cassette recording of a song before going into the studio, their producer would in fact not have intellectual property rights to it.
IF this is the case, then the WIPO just managed to shoot themselves in the foot.
Article 21
Reservations
Subject to the provisions of Article 15(3), no reservations to this Treaty shall be permitted.
It would also appear, juding from article 21, that if any section of the treaty conflicts with national law and is struck down, that the entire treaty is rendered null and void. OR (depending on how you read it) that the treaty in fact overrides any national law (DMCA) and in agreeing to this treaty, the nationality agrees to either reform or abolish any law that conflicts with it.
Article 28
Signature of the Treaty
This Treaty shall be open for signature until December 31, 1997, by any Member State of WIPO and by the European Community.
Also going on to Article 28, did the treaty get the required 30 signatures before December 31, 1997? If not then it would appear that the entire teaty is null and our lawmakers have been wasting our money and time (like this is anything new).
--> Clearly he has broken the law by defacing websites and what not, but does that warrant the treatment he's going through?
--> What treatment? They confiscated some equipment (which was probably used during the commission of the crime), and talked to him for six hours
--> Come back when they actually do something to him.
Last time I checked, in the US we're innocent until Proven guilty. Possessing bomb-making information and allowing that information to be publicly accessible is afaik not illegal. If it was, the Department of Defense is in violation of that law for allowing the DOD Handbook "Improvised Munitions" and "Unconventional Warfare" to be sold at surplus shops.
The Government has stepped beyond reasonable bending of the law.
Apparently Orwell was 18 years off.
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AFAI(K-R), the D20 license allows gamers and gaming companies to create works derived from D&D (which is not AD&D anymore, it's D&D. WOTC/Hasbro decided to EOL the AD&D title) without threat of legal actions, as long as the D20 license document is displayed somewhere (on books, normally the back page).
Just put the license on the back page of the game manual and you're set.
WOTC, upon purchasing TSR had sent out letters to what they considered "core" gamers, primarily via the E-Lists, asking them what they wanted to see.
The single most overwhelming response was "Bring Greyhawk back!" the second largest response was "Kill off your restrictive on-line policies", which is how the D20 license was born.
You'll need to check WOTC's web site to read the D20 license.
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And did they not also state that they would begin to create players that break known Audio copy protections? and that music companies could not use the CDDA logo if they had copy protection on their disks?
Damn, for a moment I thought we had a friend in the biz.
Oh well, just one more technology we'll have to break.
Won't they ever learn that they can't win?
from Article 2: Definitions...
(b) "phonogram" means the fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in a cinematographic or other audiovisual work;
(c) "fixation" means the embodiment of sounds, or of the representations thereof, from which they can be perceived, reproduced or communicated through a device;
(d) "producer of a phonogram" means the person, or the legal entity, who or which takes the initiative and has the responsibility for the first fixation of the sounds of a performance or other sounds, or the representations of sounds;
If would appear that if a musician were to make a cassette recording of a song before going into the studio, their producer would in fact not have intellectual property rights to it.
IF this is the case, then the WIPO just managed to shoot themselves in the foot.
Article 21
Reservations
Subject to the provisions of Article 15(3), no reservations to this Treaty shall be permitted.
It would also appear, juding from article 21, that if any section of the treaty conflicts with national law and is struck down, that the entire treaty is rendered null and void. OR (depending on how you read it) that the treaty in fact overrides any national law (DMCA) and in agreeing to this treaty, the nationality agrees to either reform or abolish any law that conflicts with it.
Article 28
Signature of the Treaty
This Treaty shall be open for signature until December 31, 1997, by any Member State of WIPO and by the European Community.
Also going on to Article 28, did the treaty get the required 30 signatures before December 31, 1997?
If not then it would appear that the entire teaty is null and our lawmakers have been wasting our money and time
(like this is anything new).
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--> What treatment? They confiscated some equipment (which was probably used during the commission of the crime), and talked to him for six hours
--> Come back when they actually do something to him.
Last time I checked, in the US we're innocent until Proven guilty.
Possessing bomb-making information and allowing that information to be publicly accessible is afaik not illegal. If it was, the Department of Defense is in violation of that law for allowing the DOD Handbook "Improvised Munitions" and "Unconventional Warfare" to be sold at surplus shops.
The Government has stepped beyond reasonable bending of the law.
Apparently Orwell was 18 years off.
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(which is not AD&D anymore, it's D&D. WOTC/Hasbro decided to EOL the AD&D title) without threat of legal actions,
as long as the D20 license document is displayed somewhere (on books, normally the back page).
Just put the license on the back page of the game manual and you're set.
WOTC, upon purchasing TSR had sent out letters to what they considered "core" gamers, primarily via the E-Lists, asking them what they wanted to see. The single most overwhelming response was "Bring Greyhawk back!"
the second largest response was "Kill off your restrictive on-line policies", which is how the D20 license was born. You'll need to check WOTC's web site to read the D20 license.