… the pursuit of civil rights by copyright.
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks.
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It's so pathetic, it's almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for a federal law enforcement agency to raid all homes for illegal transmissions of moving picture experiments in order to stop the invention of television. It's ludicrous.
In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity.
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
