[Cdn-DMCA] RE: Rights Management Information

[Jason Young]

Pam Samuelson identified RMI as consisting of the following at the 
aforementioned "Censorship and Privacy" conference.

Kinds of Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- country/region coding
- access controls
- device control
- number of allowable uses
- other terms
- electronic "self-help" (disables
self if circumvention attempt
detected)

Susan "Jack Valenti is my boss" Peacock, the rep from the (Canadian 
Motion Picture Distributors Association) CMPDA, clearly contemplates 
central tracking and authorization (from my conference notes: 
http://www.lexinformatica.org/dox/censorship.pdf):

"Users should expect that if they buy a movie that allows them to 
watch three times, that somebody will know whether they have watched 
it once, twice or three times."

Jason "So Much For Lurking" Young

At 21:53 -0500 02.04.05, Tom Trottier wrote:
>If RMI is just a work identifier, like an ISBN or ISSN, then I have
>no difficulty with it, and it should be useful for searching and also
>identifying privilege and moral rights holders. Presumably, there
>should be forms compatible with pure text as well as pictures,
>videos, ... Why is legislation necessary?
>
>But I would be leery of it being used to check online for access
>rights. That allows no privacy of access. Read Das Kapital lately?
>How about Mein Kampf? Penthouse? The story of O? Marquis de Sade?
>What's your reading list?
>
>BTW, apparently the credit card companies in the US have just started
>an initiative to profile possible terrorists by their purchases. Wait
>til they start tracking currency serial numbers....
>
>Tom
>------- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur -----------------
>    ,__@	Tom A. Trottier +1 613 860-6633 fax:231-6115
>  _-\_<,	758 Albert St.,Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8
>(*)/'(*)	ICQ:57647974 N45.412 W75.714
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Laws are the spider's webs which,
>if anything small falls into them they ensnare it,
>but large things break through and escape.
>	--Solon, statesman (c.638-c558 BCE)
>
>--
>For (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and
>links to other related sites please see http://www.flora.org/dmca/


-- 
Jason Young
jyoung at lexinformatica.org
613.531.3442
--
For (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and
links to other related sites please see http://www.flora.org/dmca/