USACM issues policy recommendations on DRM March 13, 2006
There is a post on EFF: Deeplinks about the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) who has issued a set of policy recommendations regarding DRM. These sound very reasonable and we all should expect no less. Heres a snippet
“Copyright Balance: Because lawful use (including fair use) of copyrighted works is in the publics best interest, a person wishing to make lawful use of copyrighted material should not be prevented from doing so. As such, DRM systems should be mechanisms for reinforcing existing legal constraints on behavior (arising from copyright law or by reasonable contract), not as mechanisms for creating new legal constraints. Appropriate technical and/or legal safeguards should be in place to preserve lawful uses in cases where DRM systems cannot distinguish lawful uses from infringing uses.”
Consumer Protection: DRM should not be used to interfere with the rights of consumers. Neither should DRM technologies interfere with any technology or use of consumer systems that are unrelated to the copyrighted items being managed. Policymakers should actively monitor actual use of DRM and amend policies as necessary to protect these rights and interests.”
Now lets hope the policy makers listen.
- Posted in : Copyright Law, Fair Use Rights, DRM
- Author : fairuseday
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